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Software Maintenance & Support
Software maintenance and support are ongoing activities that help ensure software applications remain functional, secure, and relevant to users over time. These activities can be divided into different types of maintenance:
- Corrective Maintenance:
- Purpose: Fix bugs, errors, or defects in the software.
- Examples: Debugging an application when it crashes or corrects incorrect output.
- Adaptive Maintenance:
- Purpose: Update the software to work with new environments, such as hardware, operating systems, or software platforms.
- Examples: Updating a software application to be compatible with a new version of the operating system or a change in database technology.
- Perfective Maintenance:
- Purpose: Improve performance or add new features based on user feedback or evolving requirements.
- Examples: Adding new functionality or optimizing the software for better performance.
- Preventive Maintenance:
- Purpose: Identify potential issues before they occur and reduce the risk of future problems.
- Examples: Refactoring code to ensure long-term maintainability, or performing regular system checks and updates.
Key Aspects of Software Support:
- Help Desk and User Support: Offering help via calls, tickets, chat, or emails to assist users with issues they encounter.
- Patches and Updates: Applying security patches and providing version updates to improve stability and security.
- Monitoring: Continuous monitoring of software to ensure it is running as expected, detecting performance bottlenecks or errors.
- Troubleshooting: Investigating and resolving user-reported issues, often requiring access to system logs or user reports.
- Backup and Recovery: Ensuring proper backup systems are in place and that recovery protocols are followed when data is lost or corrupted.
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