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EM3: Software Retirement Process Model

Authors:
Mira Kajko-Mattsson
Anna Hauzenberger
Ralf Fredriksson

Keywords: case studies; software lifecycle; software migration; software phaseout; software closedown; software disposal

Abstract:
The software community has been so much focused on creating and improving development and evolution processes, so that it has completely forgotten retirement. Today, there are no retirement process models whatsoever despite the fact that many software organizations desperately need guidelines for retiring their software systems. In this paper, we elicit theory about software retirement process and put it into a software retirement process model, which we call EM3: Software Retirement Process Model. The elicitation has been done within “If…”, a Nordic insurance company. The model is based on two comprehensive case studies conducted within two real-life retirement projects.

Pages: 502 to 511

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2014

Publication date: October 12, 2014

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4235

ISBN: 978-1-61208-367-4

Location: Nice, France

Dates: from October 12, 2014 to October 16, 2014