Centre for Software Maintenance Home PageIn 1989, a new Journal dedicated to software maintenance was launched by John Wiley. The 'Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice' appears quarterly, and it publishes refereed papers on topics in software maintenance that are of interest to both practitioners and academics. The editors are Keith Bennett (CSM) and Ned Chapin, who are supported by an international editorial board.
The Editors of the Journal are particularly keen to publish papers by practitioners on software maintenance work that can be of use to others. A 'short papers' section has recently been introduced, and we are also publishing summaries of conferences etc.
Few software systems remain unaltered throughout their lifetime and such enhancement, however caused, must be undertaken with due regard to sustaining or improving quality. Software maintenance is of much wider scope than is sometimes implied by the use of the term for error correction.
Other journals do not cater well for 'post delivery' and operational support issues, and the Journal of Software Maintenance fills this need. The editors' aim is to convey the results of academic research and practice experience into the computing community.
The Journal of Software Maintenance publishes papers in all aspects of software maintenance. We wish to encourage articles from practitioners working in the field (including the user community) as well as research papers. it is not the intention to publish papers on software development except where topics directly of relevance to maintenance are addressed. These could include (for example) the production of more maintainable software, or metrics produced during development to predict the maintainability, quality or reliability of software practices will be welcomed.
Articles may take the form of research papers, case studies which describe the maintenance or management of practical systems, surveys of the state of the art in a specific area of software maintenance, or tutorials on topics of relevance to practitioners. A typical paper will be 10 - 20 pages, but short articles and large papers are acceptable. For further information, please contact Keith Bennett (Keith.Bennett@durham.ac.uk).
Every paper submitted to the journal must be accompanied by a completed copyright form (there is also a plain text copyright form).
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