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Question

Software products need perfective maintenance for which of the following reasons?

The correct answer is

To support the new features that users want it to support

Under the usual four-category maintenance classification, perfective maintenance enhances the software to meet users’ evolving needs, including requested new features. Fixing observed defects is corrective maintenance, while adapting to a new platform is adaptive maintenance. Software does not physically wear out through repeated execution.

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Important Questions from Software Maintenance

  1. In Software Configuration Management (SCM), which of the following is a use-case supported by standard version control systems ?

    (a) Managing several versions or releases of a software

    (b) Filing bug reports and tracking their progress

    (c) Allowing team members to work in parallel

    (d) Identifying when and where a regression occurred

  2. When a software application is modified to remain functional and compatible after its underlying operating system is upgraded, this activity falls under which category of software maintenance?

  3. What is the unabbreviated form of ROCOF in software reliability?

  4. Which of the following statement(s) is/are true regarding PERT chart in software project management?

    I. PERT charts consists of a network of boxes and arrows.

    II. In PERT chart, the boxes represent activities and the arrow represents task dependencies.

  5. Size and complexity are a part of

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