CSCI 680 - Software Maintenance and Evolution

Description

Software maintenance and evolution are essential activities in the development of a software system. They account for more than half of the resources invested in a project. To reduce such costs, software stakeholders can adopt different strategies.

In this course, students will be introduced to principles and techniques of software maintenance and evolution. The course will cover well-established techniques and recent advances in the following topics:

• Software change management
• Software quality measurement
• Software quality assurance
• Mining of software repositories
• Software refactoring
• Defect prediction
• Defect management

The course will mainly include lectures given by the instructor. The students will complete assignments related to the course topics, read and make presentations of a few research papers, and complete a term project. The students are expected to actively participate in class discussions.

Reference books

• Software Evolution and Maintenance – A Practitioner’s Approach - By Pruyadarshi Tripathy and Kshirasagar Naik (ISBN 978-0-470-60341-3)
• Effective Software Maintenance and Evolution: A Reuse-Based Approach - by Stanislaw Jarzabek (ISBN 0-8493-3592-2)
• Software Evolution - by Tom Mens & Serge Demeyer (ISBN 978-3-642-09529-0)
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke, Don Roberts (ISBN: 978-0201485677)