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Extension and software development

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W. G. GriswoldAuthors Info & Claims

ICSE '88: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software engineering

Pages 274 - 283

Published: 01 April 1988 Publication History

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Enhancement is the most costly phase of the software development life-cycle. By developing an extension mechanism that allows users to augment a software system without modifying the underlying source code, we address enhancement directly. We describe the design and implementation of the extension mechanism. We also demonstrate how the availability of this flexible mechanism alters not only the enhancement phase of the life-cycle, but the design and implementation phases as well.

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Index Terms

Extension and software development
1. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Software management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
    2. Software post-development issues
      1. Software evolution

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ICSE '88: Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Software engineering

April 1988

459 pages

ISBN:0897912586

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T. N. Nam

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