The activities that occur after deployment of a software system. This includes making modifications to released systems, training, operating, and transitioning to support organizations.
Questions tagged [maintenance]
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I'm doing 90% maintenance and 10% development, is this normal?
I have just recently started my career as a web developer for a medium sized company. As soon as I started I got the task of expanding an existing application (badly coded, developed by multiple programmers over the years, handles the same tasks in…
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How can a maintenance-only programmer get a raise?
I have been working as a maintenance programmer for a couple of years and am wondering if there is such a thing as a raise for maintenance programmer? I ask because responsibilities don't get wider, you're still doing almost the same things, maybe…
user1449
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Policy and practice on code maintenance
I just came out of University and have been working at this company for roughly 8 months, while I was given the title of developer, most of the time I have spent on is fixing and debugging other people's codes.
I always wonder why isn't the original…
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How to manage maintenance
There are lots of great books and resources out there about managing new software developments, but very little that I've seen about managing ongoing maintenance of software systems. I'm not talking about big enhancements, I'm talking about the…
Craig Schwarze
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Should I just slog it out or discuss with my PM?
Having "completed" my task, I have recently been assigned by my PM to work on a maintenance project by another PM. In this other project, the client wants to add new features and I'm assigned to do a feature.
I'm finding my job over my head for…
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Code generation vs data driven
While writing a data mapping function (import from csv (using TextFieldParser) to table), I used the sql table structure to generate the boilerplate C# code that creates the datatable and populates it (4-500 lines of code) reading from the string…
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