One of the most difficult tasks in a software development project is estimating the size of the project. Unfortunatly very often you have to do it at the very beginning of a project, when you have the least information. The result at the end is very often a large difference between the original estimate and [...]
Just as Supportability, Maintainability is one of these Non Functional Requirements, that is or should be required from every software development project. So what does that mean? Wikipedia defines it as the ease with which a software product can be modified in order to: correct defects meet new requirements make future maintenance easier, or cope [...]
When reading the specification of a piece of software to be written, you are bound to find some non functional requirements. Among these there will be, or at least should be Supportability. But what the heck does that mean? How do you install supportability? Let me present some ideas, what you can do to improve [...]