Definitions[]
General[]
Maintenance is
| “ | Any act that either prevents the failure or malfunction of equipment or restores its operating capability.[1] | ” |
| “ | [a]ction necessary to retain or restore an item to a specified condition.[2] | ” |
Hardware[]
Maintenance is "the servicing of the machine in order to make it work in accordance with its original specifications and any changes to those specifications authorized for that machine. . . ."[3]
| “ | [T]he term 'maintenance' has a much broader temporal connotation [than 'repair']. The Senate Report on section 117 characterized 'maintenance' as including 'checking the proper functioning of [ ] components.' . . . Thus, maintenance, or 'servicing,' was meant to encompass monitoring systems for problems, not simply fixing a single, isolated malfunction."[4] | ” |
Information[]
See Maintenance of information
Software[]
Software maintenance (also program maintenance) is
| “ | [t]he modification of a software product, after delivery, to correct faults, to improve performance or other attributes, or to adapt the product to a changed environment.[5] | ” |
| “ | [t]he process of altering program code or instructions to meet new or changing requirements.[6] | ” |
References[]
- ↑ NIST Special Publication 800-82, at B-5.
- ↑ Defense Acquisition University, Glossary, at B-108 (13th ed. Nov. 2009) (full-text).
- ↑ 17 U.S.C. §117(d)(1).
- ↑ Storage Technology Corp. v. Custom Hardware Engineering & Consulting, Inc., 421 F.3d 1307, 1312 (Fed. Cir. 2005) (full-text).
- ↑ California Office of Systems Integration, Definitions (full-text).
- ↑ Auditing and Financial Management: Glossary of EDP Terminology, at 13.
See also[]
- Adaptive maintenance
- Computer Maintenance Competition Assurance Act of 1998
- Computer Maintenance Management System
- Corrective maintenance
- Maintenance agreement
- Maintenance fees
- Maintenance hook
- Maintenance of information
- Maintenance key
- Maintenance of Automatic Data Processing Equipment in the Federal Government
- Maintenance of information
- Maintenance organization
- Mean time between maintenance
- Non-local maintenance
- Perfective maintenance
- Preventive maintenance
- Third party maintenance organization