Did you know that 75% of the total cost of ownership for a software application over its useful lifespan is spent on enhancements? Enhancements include:
- perfective maintenance - adding new functionality to respond to changing business needs
- adaptive maintenance - porting to new hardware or a different/new operating systems with no functional changes to keep pace with underlying technology advances
- corrective maintenance - bug fixes and corrupt data repair due to defects
Research also shows that the average developer spends 50% of their time just scanning through code to understand and determine how or where to fix it. This integral part of the enhancement process is virtually an everyday software worker task called impact analysis.
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