SD+&+D+Maintenance

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 * Questions**

1. Name and describe the three categories of maintenance.

2. Which of the three maintenance activities generally has most time associated with it?

3. Digi-Shop contracted Tech-Corps to develop an e-commerce software solution 18 months ago.

(a) Digi-Shop now want an additional module to be built which can handle taxes in all European and South American country. Which type of maintenance is this?

(b) Digi-Shop have identified an error which prevents their customers ordering more than 10 items online. Digi-Shop have asked Tech-Corps to fix this.

Which type of maintenance is this?

(c) Tech-Corps plan to enhance the software to allow users to authenticate using Touch ID hardware on mobile phones.

Which type of maintenance is this?

4. Why is documentation of previous stages important at the maintenance stage?

5. Describe how a programmer moving to a different company might affect maintenance.

6. A program is now on version 6. Changes need to be made to some code. Why might this pose a challenge to the development team?

6. Apple announce the release a new operating system. In what way might this affect maintenance.

7. What should advice would you give to a software development company to ensure that their programmers develop more maintainable code?