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1st Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR '97)
p. 101
A theory driven approach to century change
Z. Ory, Siemens-Nixdorf Informationssyst. AG, Munich, Germany
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Many people consider the bugs which are expected to appear in software at the change of the century to be a normal maintenance issue. In this paper, we show that there are some significant differences. Taking advantage of these differences may help to lower migration costs. We look at how organizations adapt their maintenance capabilities to the maintenance demand. Under normal conditions, this strategy helps to simultaneously cope with the occurring bug load and to keep costs down. Century-change-related bugs, however, also occur in large quantities in programs that have had very low error rates in the past, bringing organizations into a situation they are not prepared for. We deduce that more mechanical approaches may be more appropriate and more cost-effective. A list of criteria is deduced to find the best approach in a given situation.
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Index Terms- data integrity; Year 2000 problem; theory-driven approach; century change; software maintenance demand; program bugs; system migration costs; software maintenance capabilities; bug load; error rates; mechanical approaches; cost-effectiveness; criteria
Citation:
Z. Ory,
"A theory driven approach to century change,"
csmr,
p. 101,
1st Euromicro Working Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering (CSMR '97),
1997
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