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What Is Software Maintainability?

Maintainability refers to modifying, updating, and fixing software to address faults, improve performance, or meet new requirements. It involves approximately 75% of development costs after a system's initial release. Maintainability increases software reliability, efficiency, and safety by making future updates and repairs easier. Software maintenance is required to add new features or functions requested by customers, address issues with changed hardware or systems, and fix problems like bugs or security vulnerabilities. There are four main types of software maintainability: corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive.

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What Is Software Maintainability?

Maintainability refers to modifying, updating, and fixing software to address faults, improve performance, or meet new requirements. It involves approximately 75% of development costs after a system's initial release. Maintainability increases software reliability, efficiency, and safety by making future updates and repairs easier. Software maintenance is required to add new features or functions requested by customers, address issues with changed hardware or systems, and fix problems like bugs or security vulnerabilities. There are four main types of software maintainability: corrective, adaptive, perfective, and preventive.

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WHAT IS SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY?

Maintainability means fixing, updating, servicing and to modify the system or


update the software for performance improvements or for the correction of
faults. Maintainability also includes the

Addition of new functionality or the adaptation of software to meet new


requirements for the customer needs. Software maintainability is the degree of
an application to repaired or enhanced it. During the system development life
cycle (SDLC) this phase requires more development effort than any other phase.
Approximately 75 percent of the cost is related to software maintenance.
Maintainability increases the reliability, efficiency or safety of the software. It is
also used to make future maintenance easier. It is used to increase the lifetime of
the software. Maintainability repair or replace the faulty components and make
the software even better as compared to the previous condition of the software.

WHEN is SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY REQUIRED?

Software maintenance is required when the customer demands new features and
new functions in the software. Sometimes maintenance is required when the
hardware of the system is changed then the modification of software is needed.

Market conditions and organization changes are also the reasons for software
modification. It also includes that when the issue is detected, immediately fix it
before it becomes a big problem. Sometimes viruses and malware are detected in
the software which causes problems for the user than software maintenance is
required to fix it or improve the performance.

TYPES of SOFTWARE MAINTAINABILITY

Software maintainability consists of four types.

1. CORRECTIVE

Corrective maintenance is defined as maintenance of bugs or errors. It means


when the error is detected in the software then the corrective maintenance is
required to fix it. These bugs or errors are responsible for the faults which may
appear in the code, design or logic of the software. Sometimes the user asks for
the enhancements of the software and not about fixing the bugs. Corrective
maintenance requires the correction of existing faults in the software. Sometimes
changes in hardware also cause bugs or errors.

2. ADAPTIVE

Adaptive maintenance includes the environmental changes where your software


is living. Changes to the hardware, operating system, software dependencies, and
organizational business rules and policies are handled in adaptive maintenance.
By these modifications to the environment, changes can occur in the other parts
of the software. In changing circumstances adaptive maintenance is required to
keep your software fresh or to increase the lifetime of the software.

3. PERFECTIVE

Perfective maintenance refers to the changes in features and requirements in


your existing system. After sometime when user suggests for new features and
new functionality of the software than adaptive maintenance is used. In adaptive
maintenance, some features are removed from the software which features are
not effective for the software. Adaptive maintenance involves 50-55% of the
maintenance work.

4. PREVENTIVE

Perfective maintenance maximizes the maintainability or understanding of the


software system. Documentation updating or code optimizing are involved in
preventive maintenance. Preventive maintenance helps the software to become
more scalable, stable, understandable, and maintainable. This maintenance acts
as medicine to prevent the problems. Restructuring the data and code of the
software are implemented in preventive maintenance.

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