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Software Maintenance

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Software maintenance consumes 60–80% of most companies’ software budgets (Freedman and Weinberg; 1982; Parikh 1982), the largest single item contribut-ing to high software costs (Yau and Tsai, 1986). U.S. corporations now spend $30 billion annually on software maintenance and, by 1995, the process of fixing and upgrading aging applications software programs will employ 90% of all software resources (Moad, 1990). New code is added faster than old code is discarded, increasing the maintainable systems base. Moreover, growth in system size averages 10% per year (Swanson and Beath, 1990) and maintenance expenditures generally increase as systems age. Large multinational corpora-tions require a 15% increase in programming staff every year just to meet growing maintenance needs (Jones, 1986). And the introduction of fourth-generation languages has not curbed the growth in maintenance requirements (Chapin, 1984; Lehner, 1990; Parikh, 1986).

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    Susan A. Sherer

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Sherer, S.A. (1992). Software Maintenance. In: Software Failure Risk. Applications of Modern Technology in Business. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3020-6_10

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