Software Maintenance In Taiwan And A Comparative Analysis With Other Countries

Abstract

The percentage of software maintenance effort grows steadily in the entire life cycle of a software system as the software application matures in Taiwan. However, the productivity and the quality of software maintenance do not keep pace with the software systems themselves due to a lack of understanding the various issues in the maintenance work. In order to uncover the current status of software maintenance in Taiwan, we conducted a survey based on other similar surveys in other countries. The result of our work shows that there are some unique phenomena in Taiwan, and the comparison of our data with others provide interesting and useful information to both software engineering practitioners and researchers.