Nov 23, 2024  
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog 
    
2024-2025 Undergraduate and Graduate Catalog

CECS 547 - Software Maintenance, Reengineering and Reuse


(3 units)

Prerequisite: Open to Computer Engineering MS, Computer Science MS and Engineering MS students only.
Introduction to software maintenance, defect management, corrective, adaptive and perfective maintenance. Evolution of legacy software systems. Program comprehension techniques, reverse engineering, restructuring, refactoring of software systems. Software re-engineering, data reverse engineering. Software reuse. Impact analysis, regression testing. Master’s students register in CECS 547 or CECS 647 ; Ph.D. students register in CECS 647  .

Letter grade only (A-F). Additional projects required for CECS 647 . (Lecture-problems 3 hours) CECS 647