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refactoring | ||||
subject | fact |
refactoring | has definition Changing part of the design; performed as part of reengineering | |
is part of reengineering | ||
is a subtopic of 11.2 - Software Process Models | ||
is a kind of maintenance | ||
is a kind of software engineering | ||
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 | ||
has part evolution | ||
has part maintenance | ||
has part managing software projects | ||
has part programming | ||
has part programming | ||
has part project management | ||
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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