program maintenance
Updating programs to reflect changes in the organization's business or to adapt to new operating environments. Although maintaining old programs written by ex-employees is often much more difficult than writing new ones, the task is usually given to junior programmers, because the most talented professionals don't want the job.
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| Undocumented programs are a huge problem, and this commentary from PROCASE Corporation gets right to the point. The company's SMARTsystem program created a flowchart from programming source code in order to make it understandable. |
program maintenance [′prō·grəm ′mānt·ən·əns]
(computer science)
The updating of computer programs both by error correction and by alteration of programs to meet changing needs.
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