In software maintenance, it is quite common to identify another type of software change, namely Preventive changes, because code can have flaws that are not real defects (they do not cause failures), but they make the software harder to maintain in the future. Preventive changes are those that improve the maintainability of a software system or reduce the potential for future failures.

Chapter Contents:

• 19.1 Change management
• 19.2 Configuration management
• 19.3 Incident management

Inspec keywords: configuration management; software maintenance; management of change

Other keywords: change management; configuration management; preventive changes; software system maintainability; software maintenance; software change

Subjects: Software management; Software engineering techniques