CAREER: Information Sources for Software Maintenance

职业：软件维护的信息源

• 批准号: 9984047
• 负责人: Carolyn Seaman
• 金额: $ 23万
• 依托单位: University of Maryland Baltimore County
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2000
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2000-03-15 至 2004-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9984047&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: CAREER; Information; Sources; Software; Maintenance

Proposal 9984047Seaman, Carolyn B.University of Maryland Baltimore CountyCAREER: Information Sources for Software MaintenanceThis project consists of a series of empirical studies to understand how software maintainers gain information about the systems being maintained, with the goal of improving the quality and productivity of maintenance processes in general. It begins with an exploratory investigation of what factors need to be considered, including appropriate measures of effectiveness, an operational definition of information source, and identification of other relevant variables. Then current maintenance practices are studied to determine what sources are efficient, effective, and available in different situations. Finally, based on the results of the exploratory work, improvements to maintenance practice are proposed and empirically validated. The study designs incorporate a wide variety of research methods in order to triangulate findings and trade off different threats to validity. Industrial participation is crucial, not only to obtain valid and useful results, but also to ensure that the significant long-term potential of this work is realized. This work also includes an educational component consisting of two major activities: development of a software engineering course concentrating on the latter stages of the lifecycle (emphasizing maintenance), and extensive involvement of graduate and undergraduate students in software engineering research.

seaman, Carolyn b .马里兰大学巴尔的摩县职业：软件维护的信息源这个项目由一系列的经验研究组成，以理解软件维护人员如何获得关于被维护系统的信息，其目标是提高维护过程的质量和生产力。它首先对需要考虑的因素进行探索性调查，包括适当的有效性度量、信息源的操作定义和其他相关变量的识别。然后研究当前的维护实践，以确定在不同情况下哪些资源是高效的、有效的和可用的。最后，根据探索性工作的结果，提出了维修实践的改进建议，并进行了实证验证。研究设计包括各种各样的研究方法，以三角测量结果和权衡不同的有效性威胁。工业参与是至关重要的，这不仅是为了获得有效和有用的结果，而且也是为了确保实现这项工作的重大长期潜力。这项工作还包括由两个主要活动组成的教育组成部分：集中于生命周期后期阶段（强调维护）的软件工程课程的开发，以及软件工程研究中研究生和本科生的广泛参与。