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Chapter 11 Assuring the quality of software maintenance. The importance of the first foundation software package quality if the first foundation. if the quality software package is poor the maintenance will be poor or ineffective. Previous Play Next Rewind 10 seconds Move forward 10 seconds Unmute 0:03 / 0:15 Full screen Brainpower Read More The factors that affect the first foundation are 1. operation factors such as correctness and reliability 2. product revision factors such as maintainability, flexibility, and testability 3. product transition factors such as portability and interoperability The importance of the second foundation Maintenance policy. the main maintenance policy components that affect the success of software maintenance are the version development and change policies to be appled during the software's life cycle. risks of no contract review customer requirements to be clarified review of alternative approaches to maintenance provision review of resources review of workers and subcontractors review of costs estimates Basic elements of a mainetnance plan 1. A list of contracted maintenance services (internal and external) 2. A description of the maintenance teams organization 3. a list of maintenance facilities 4. a list of identified maintenance service risks 5. a list of required software maintenance procedures and controls 6. the software maintenance budget Chapter 13 CASE tools What is a CASE tool Computer Aided software engineering-computerized software development tools that support the developer when performing one or more phases of the software life cycle and or support software The effect of CASE tools on software quality The main component of real CASE tools is the repository that stores all the information related to the project. The repository serves as a benchmark or marker for the next phase the contribution of CASE tools to software product quality real case tools reduce the number of errors introduced in each development phase. The main ways case toos contibute to software maintenance quality it 1. corrective maintenance - full and updated documentation of the software enables easier and more reliable identification of the cause for software failure 2. Adaptive maintenance - full enables thorough examination of possible software package adaptations for new users and applications 3. Functional improvement maintenance - use of repository enables desigeners to assure consistency of new applications and improvements with existing software systems. Chapter 14 Procedures and Work Instructions