Retrospectiva de projetos de evolução de software: comparando teoria e prática

Abstract

The software maintenance is a very common activity that the companies need to be atention if want keep the relevance of product and user satisfaction. This maintenance could be understanded like smalls updates that have purpose of correct errors, adapt for integration with external services and add new functionalities. Is part too the need of migration the product to new version (often with others technologies), because the previously version ends up getting very complex, may have been developed with one technology wich became obsolete or by strategic decision. Based on this, this job set out to investigate the literature some specific methodologies for software evolution and to compare with the activities carried out in two real modernization projects. For this, a list of main features extracted from the methodologies was used for create a questionnaire to be responded for people who were part of the evaluated modernization projects. After getting the answers, the data was related with the challenges and characteristics founded in the literature. At the end of the analysis, was found that the projects have gone through the challenges and have the characteristics, although they have not used any specific methodology for the scenario.