Review of Perspectives on Improving Software Maintenance by Frank Niessink

Abstract

Frank Niessink's doctoral thesis, published as a 200 page book Perspectives on Improving Software Maintenance, concentrates on using metrics in improving software maintenance, and on viewing software maintenance as a service. This extended review summarizes each of the three general sections (introduction and conclusion, measurement perspective, and maturity perspective), and closes with some comments by the reviewer. Copyright © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.