Software maintenance and change control plans are critical to the overall success of a software project. A properly executed plan will not only provide more reliable coding changes, and change implementations; it will also have beneficial financial impacts on the company. Large portions of software expenditures are related to program maintenance. Poorly tested or documented changes and coding changes implemented on an emergency basis as twice as costly as those that are well planned and …showed first 75 words of 1433 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1433 total…program is formally reviewed and the initial acceptance is granted. From this point only, no revisions are allowed that have not gone through the formal Maintenance and Change Control Plan. When an application receives final acceptance no further changes are processed and the application is prepared for release. References http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/aswtcai/secource/maintain.htm http://www.construx.com/survivalguide/detailedchangeproc.htm http://hebb.cis.uoguelph.ca/~dave/27320/quality/maintain.html