Applying Traditional Unix Tools during Maintenance: An Experience Report

The Unix programming environment provides a rich and fairly standard set of generic tools for the development and maintenance of software. In an age of advanced software tools and environments, it is useful to see how new tools compare against an old baseline. Our experiences from one small exercise in maintenance suggest that simple Unix tools seem to raise the bar of excellence deceptively high.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: WCRE
• Authors: Arthur Tateishi, Andrew Walenstein
• Keywords: Advanced Software Tools, Simple Unix Tools, Software Engineering, Unix Programming Environment, WCRE 2000