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To improve the quality of software maintenance work and to reduce the time taken to perform maintenance tasks, programmers need to be educated on how to maintain programs. Despite the complexity of software maintenance and the need for informed maintainers, there are few training programs or academic courses aimed at developing the skills that are required of maintenance programmers. In this paper we will look at four different scenarios for teaching software maintenance. These scenarios will be suitable for industrial training as well as university or college courses and are based on courses on software maintenance that the authors have given in industry and academia.
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Calliss, F.W., Calliss, D.T. (1993). Suggested scenarios of software maintenance education. In: Díaz-Herrera, J.L. (eds) Software Engineering Education. CSEE 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 750. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0017624
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