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From: se90wak@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Wael A Khalil)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Modifiability
Message-ID: <2192@Terra.cc.brunel.ac.uk>
Date: 5 Jun 91 13:58:46 GMT
Reply-To: se90wak@cc.brunel.ac.uk (Wael A Khalil)
Distribution: comp.software-eng
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I would like to initiate a discussion on maintainability! 
there are two main positions that people (and literature) take on how to 
produce miantainable (and modifiable) software:
	- Adopting a software development method and making sure that the
	documentation is up to date will insure that the software will
	be highly modifiable.
	- Software engineering method is not enough, there is more to it.

what do you think?
I also would like to make it clear that it is not Maintenance I'm talking about
it is enhancements, further development and re-engineering activities.