Q. What is the definition of software maintenance according to IEEE610, 1990?

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Q. How much of the software code in production in the world is unstructured, patched and badly documented?

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Q. What is the main determinant of the total cost of software, both during initial development and during maintenance?

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Q. What can help to save on corrective maintenance costs?

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Q. What is the distinction between software development and software maintenance?

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Q. What is the main factor affecting the cost of software maintenance?

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Q. What are some ways to reduce the maintenance problem?

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Q. What is the relationship between software development and maintenance?

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Q. What is the relationship between better initial development and lower maintenance costs?

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Q. What are the two approaches to improve the maintenance of software systems?

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Q. What type of maintenance deals with the repair of faults found?

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Q. What type of maintenance mainly deals with accommodating new or changed user requirements?

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Q. What type of maintenance concerns activities aimed at increasing the system’s maintainability?

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Q. What is the estimated percentage of total maintenance effort accounted for by correction of faults?

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Q. What is the estimated percentage of total life cycle costs accounted for by system maintenance?

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Q. What is the estimated ratio of people working in software development to software maintenance?

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Q. What do later studies by Nosek and Palvia (1990) and Basili et al. (1996) indicate about the relative distribution of maintenance activities?

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Q. What do the results from Schach et al. (2003) indicate about the relative distribution of maintenance activities compared to (Lientz and Swanson, 1980)?

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Q. What is the main reason for the differences in results between studies such as (Lientz and Swanson, 1980) and Schach et al. (2003)?

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Q. What is the result of some organizations not following the IEEE definition of software maintenance?

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