Software Quality Assurance for Maintenance

@article{Collofello1987SoftwareQA,
  title={Software Quality Assurance for Maintenance},
  author={James S. Collofello and Jeffrey J. Buck},
  journal={IEEE Software},
  year={1987},
  volume={4},
  pages={46-51}
}
Maintenance plays a vital role in protecting quality as a system evolves. The results of this study pinpoit this study pinpoint how to make maintenance a part of SQA. 
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