Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance

Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance

Khaled M. Khan, Yan Zhang

Copyright: © 2005 |Pages: 392

ISBN13: 9781591403661|ISBN10: 1591403669|EISBN13: 9781591403685|ISBN13 Softcover: 9781591403678

DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-366-1

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Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance addresses the recent developments of systems maintenance research and practices ranging from technicality of systems evolution to managerial aspects of the topic. It includes very contemporary issues such as evolving legacy systems to e-business, applying patterns for reengineering legacy systems to web, architectural recovery of legacy systems, evolving legacy systems into software components. The book offers insight on how information systems evolution and maintenance could be initiated, managed, and engineered. The book is a collection of new ideas, latest techniques and experiences in systems evolution and maintenance.

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Front Materials

Title Page

Copyright Page

Preface

Acknowledgments

Chapters

Chapter 1

Managing Corporate Information Systems Evolution and Maintenance (pages 1-23)

Ned Chapin

Five key management considerations center on a basic fact—managers manage people in getting things done. As they manage the people in getting information systems evolution and maintenance done, the managers address many concerns...

Chapter 2

Design for Evolution: Fostering Continuity and Responding to Change (pages 24-50)

Darren Dalcher

This chapter highlights the pervasiveness of change in most developed systems, and the resulting implications on development practice. A key problem with developed software systems is the focus on discrete one-off development....

Chapter 3

On the Maturity of Software Maintenance and Other IT Services (pages 51-74)

Frank Niessink

In this chapter, we examine the differences between software maintenance and software development from a service point of view, and the consequences thereof for the maturity of software maintenance organizations. We argue that...

Chapter 4

Upfront Corrective Maintenance at the Front-End Support Level (pages 75-107)

Mira Kajko-Mattsson

This chapter presents the process of upfront corrective maintenance at the front-end support level. The chapter is logically divided into two parts. The first part introduces the domain of the upfront corrective maintenance process...

Chapter 5

Evolving Legacy System Features into Fine-Grained Components (pages 108-137)

Alok Mehta, George T. Heineman

There is a constant need for practical and cost-effective software evolution techniques. We have developed a novel evolution methodology that integrates the concepts of features, regression testing, and component-based software...

Chapter 6

Reengineering Legacy Systems Towards Web Environments (pages 138-166)

Ying Zou, Kostas Kontogiannis

With the widespread use of the Web, distributed object technologies have been widely adopted to construct network-centric architectures, using XML, Web Services, CORBA, and DCOM. Organizations would like to take advantage of the Web...

Chapter 7

Applying Patterns for Reengineering to the Web (pages 167-196)

Uwe Zdun

This chapter examines the use of patterns for reengineering legacy systems to the Web. Today reengineering existing (legacy) systems to the Web is a typical software maintenance task. In such projects developers integrate a Web...

Chapter 8

Architectural Slicing to Support System Evolution (pages 197-210)

Jianjun Zhao, Limin Xiang

Change impact analysis is a useful technique in software maintenance and evolution. Many techniques have been proposed to support change impact analysis at the code level of software systems, but little effort has been made for...

Chapter 9

An Open Architecture for Visual Reverse Engineering (pages 211-227)

Alexandru C. Telea

Tool support for program understanding becomes increasingly important in the software evolution cycle, and it has become an integral part of managing systems evolution and maintenance. Using interactive visual tools for getting...

Chapter 10

Software Architecture Analysis and Reconstruction (pages 228-254)

Kamran Sartipi, Kostas Kontogiannis

This chapter addresses the research challenges in the area of software architecture reconstruction and discusses the state-of-the-art and practice solutions to these challenges. Software architecture analysis and reconstruction is an...

Chapter 11

Evolution and Maintenance of Web Sites: A Product Line Model (pages 255-271)

Rafael Capilla, Juan C. Duenas

In this chapter we describe the product line models, and show how to apply them for developing and evolving Web products. A product line captures the common and variable aspects of software systems as key assets under a common...

Chapter 12

Software Maintenance of Process Modeling Line Model (pages 272-294)

Zeljka Car

The chapter provides the insight into software maintenance process, its features, actors, activities and results, with the emphasis on the importance and complexity of systems maintenance. The issues related to maintenance modeling...

Chapter 13

Evolving Legacy System Towards E-Business (pages 295-325)

Lerina Aversano, Raffaele Esposito, Teresa Mallardo, Maria Tortorella

In e-business, addressing the technical issues alone is not enough to drive the evolution of existing legacy applications, but it is necessary to consider problems concerning the strict relationship that exists between the evolution...

Chapter 14

Business Oriented Systems Maintenance Management (pages 326-344)

Malin Nordstrom, Tommy Welander

In the introduction to this chapter, we discuss some of the common problems in maintenance. In order to solve these problems, we find it necessary to think in a new way, including the relationship of businesses to the system...

Chapter 15

Reducing IS Maintenance by Improving the Quality of IS Development Processes and Practices (pages 345-363)

Evan W. Duggan

The correlation between the quality of information systems (IS) development practices, the products they shape, and systems maintainability has been well established. Several organizations have expended large amounts of money on...

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