Iterative Maintenance Life Cycle Using eXtreme Programming

Abstract

Software maintenance is a complex and life long process due to unstructured code, team morale, poor visibility of the project, lack of communication techniques and lack of proper test suite. On the other hand extreme programming is an existing process of software development with its challenges practices. In this paper, we propose an iterative maintenance life cycle using extreme programming practices. It would be able to resolve software maintenance issues in the smooth manner. The proposed approach speedsup maintenance process with less effort and produces a more maintainable code for future maintenance and evolution.