Definitions[]
Software[]
Perfective maintenance is
“ | [s]oftware maintenance performed to improve the performance, maintainability, or other attributes of a computer program.[1] | ” |
“ | the modification of a software product after delivery to detect and correct latent faults in the software product before they are manifested as failures.[2] | ” |
References[]
- ↑ U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Glossary of Computerized System and Software Development Technology 22 (Aug. 1995) (full-text).
- ↑ ISO/IEC 14764:2006 Software Engineering — Software Life Cycle Processes — Maintenance.