| reengineering | has definition A type of maintenance performed to improve the design of some part of a software system, in general so that it has higher maintainability. In general, no new features are added for users |  |
| has purpose to increase maintainability of a system | |
| has part forward engineering | |
| has part refactoring | |
includes - cleaning up the code to make it more readable
- completely replacing a layer
- re-factoring part of the design
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| is a subtopic of 1.6 - Software Engineering Projects | |
| is a subtopic of 11.2 - Software Process Models | |
| is a kind of maintenance | |
| is a kind of software engineering | |
| reduces long-term costs | |
| should make the system more amenable to adding features in the future | |
| should not include adding any new features for users | |
| maintenance | is part of software engineering | |
| software engineering | has challenge accurately forecasting how much time it will take either to develop a system, or to make a specific set of changes | |
| has definition from the Canadian Standards Association The systematic activities involved in the design, implementation and testing of software to optimize its production and support | |
| has definition from the IEEE (1) The application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, maintenance of software; that is, the application of engineering to software. (2) The study of approaches as in (1) | |
| has goal solving customers' problems | |
| has part ensuring that maintenance and evolution of software is done in a systematic way | |
| involves applying well-understood techniques in an organized and disciplined way | |
| involves the translation of higher-level designs into particular programming languages | |
| is / labour-intensive | |
| is highly iterative | |
| is undergoing development in its technology and techniques | |
| is normally organized into software projects | |
| sometimes consists of developing completely new software | |
| uses resources such as the time and money of the stakeholders, and the CPU-time and memory of computers | |
| usually consists of modifying software that has been already written - this is because software is normally continually changed over a period of years until it becomes obsolete | |
| process | see also process^2 | |
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