Redesign for flexibility and maintainability: a case study

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Ackermann, Christopher; Lindvall, Mikael; Dennis, Gregory D.
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Abstract
In this paper, we analyze software that we inherited from another party. We analyze its architecture and use common design principles to identify critical changes in order to improve its flexibility with respect to a set of planned extensions. We describe flexibility issues that we encountered and how they were addressed by a redesign and re-implementation. The study shows that basic and well-established design concepts can be used to guide the design and redesign of software.
Date issued
2009-03
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/58869
Department
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Journal
13th European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, CSMR 2009
Publisher
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Citation
Christopher Ackermann, Mikael Lindvall, Greg Dennis, "Redesign for Flexibility and Maintainability: A Case Study," csmr, pp.259-262, 2009 European Conference on Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 2009. © 2010 IEEE
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ISBN
978-0-7695-3589-0
ISSN
1534-5351
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