Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice [Hardcover]

Penny Grubb (Author), Armstrong A. Takang (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 9812384251 | ISBN-13: 978-9812384256 | Publication Date: September 2003 | Edition: 2

Software systems now invade every area of daily living. Yet, we still struggle to build systems we can really rely on. If we want to work with software systems at any level, we need to get to grips with the way software evolves. This book should equip the reader with a sound understanding of maintenance and how it affects all levels of the software evolution process.

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..". an excellent piece of work that comprehensively covers the breadth of software maintenance issues ... the strongest praise I can give is that I intend to use it myself, as a reference to aid my research, and as a textbook the next time I teach maintenance."

From the Publisher

Readership: Researchers, graduate students and undergraduates in software engineering, programming, information engineering, health informatics and medical informatics; practitioners and industrialists in software development and maintenance. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 350 pages
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc; 2 edition (September 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9812384251
• ISBN-13: 978-9812384256
• Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,311,981 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Belongs in an academic journal, September 13, 2006

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J. A. Krall (Terre Haute, IN, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice (Second Edition) (Paperback)

The second edition of this book is poorly edited. There are many spelling mistakes throughout the book, which is inexcusable as almost all of them can be caught by computer now. Semicolons and commas are incorrectly swapped on a regular basis. For a second edition textbook, I find it to be a poor example of educational writing.

The examples given are horribly inaccurate. For example, in section 8.5.1, "ls wc | w" is given as an example of composition-based reuse. On my computer, at least, this attempts to run ls on the file wc, and then pipes the output of that to the w command. What was intended is the still-inaccurate, "ls | wc -w", which counts the number of words in a directory. The correct command would be "ls | wc -l", which counts the number of files (each is printed on a separate line by ls).

All of these things would be forgivable, however, if the main text itself were interesting. Unfortunately, it instead reads like a first edition masters' thesis, complete with academic pretentiousness, sub-sub-subsections (i.e. 8.5.2.2), useless diagrams, and references [226] to other peoples' [10] master theses [153].

2 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars New edition, September 24, 2003

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"writer_lecturer" (UK) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Software Maintenance: Concepts and Practice (Paperback)

There is a new edition of this book now available
ISBN 981-238-425-1