Everything about Software maintenance

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Software maintenanceA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystemsInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: JavaScriptThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Types of software evolution and software maintenanceCited 250 times
5. Go sideways: SoftwareA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Source codeA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Types of software evolution and software maintenance

  Ned Chapin, Joanne E. Hale, Khaled Md. Khan · 2001 · Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice · 250 citations

• Software Maintenance Maturity Model (SMmm): the software maintenance process model

  Alain April, Jane Huffman Hayes, Alain Abran · 2005 · Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice · 72 citations

• Understanding Software Maintenance Work

  S. Bendifallah · 1987 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 71 citations

• Issues in Software Maintenance

  Bennet P. Lientz · 1983 · ACM Computing Surveys · 43 citations

• Incremental Maintenance of Software Artifacts

  S.P. Reiss · 2006 · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 39 citations

• Dynamics of software maintenance

  Pankaj Bhatt, Gautam Shroff, Arun K. Misra · 2004 · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 27 citations

• Software Maintenance: 1990 status

  Sasa M. Dekleva · 1992 · Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice · 21 citations

• Software Errors and Software Maintenance Management

  Rajiv D. Banker, Srikant M. Datar, Chris F. Kemerer · 2002 · Information Technology and Management · 19 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Reuse and maintenance practices among divergent forks in three software ecosystems

  John Businge, Moses Openja, Sarah Nadi · 2022 · Empirical Software Engineering · 38 citations

• A Refactoring Classification Framework for Efficient Software Maintenance

  Abdullah Almogahed, Hairulnizam Mahdin, Mazni Omar · 2023 · IEEE Access · 24 citations

• A Systematic Literature Review on Maintenance of Software Containers

  Ruchika Malhotra, Anjali Bansal, Marouane Kessentini · 2024 · ACM Computing Surveys · 16 citations

• Automated evaluation of comments to aid software maintenance

  Srijoni Majumdar, Ayush Bansal, Partha Pratim Das · 2022 · Journal of Software: Evolution and Process · 12 citations

• Optimising Software Lifecycle Management through Predictive Maintenance: Insights and Best Practices

  Abhishek Goyal · 2022 · International Journal of Science and Research Archive · 12 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996
• Introduction to AlgorithmsThomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson · 1990
• Software EngineeringShari Lawrence Pfleeger, Joanne M Atlee · 1987
• KubernetesKelsey Hightower, Brendan Burns · 2017
• Software process improvementEric W. Olsen · 2001
• 📕Change Request Impacts in Software MaintenanceMadapuri Rudra Kumar, Annaluri Sreenivasa Rao · 2020
• 📕Recent Advancements in Software Reliability AssuranceAdarsh Anand, Mangey Ram · 2019
• 📕Tackling the Year 2000Brian Johnson · 1997

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