Designing Maintainable Software

the long version

This book is about maintaining computer software. Its aim is to improve a programmer's ability for altering code to fit changing requirements and for detecting and correcting errors. This book argues for a new way of thinking about maintaining software, proposing the use of a set of human factors principles that govern the programming-software-event world interactions and form the core of the maintenance process. The book should prove highly valuable for systems analysts and programmers, managers seeking to reduce costs, researchers looking at solutions to the maintenance problem, and students learning to write clear, unambiguous programs.