Question 3

Illustrate and describe the maintenance life cycle proposed to the case.
For the case study of insulin pump, our team proposed the post-delivery stage of
software maintenance life cycle processes. In this type of software processes, there are 7
maintenance stages or phases that insulin pump software project needs to go through.

Post-Delivery Stage
1. Classification and identification stage
This is the first stage where software preparation and transition activities, such as
the conception and creation of the maintenance plan; the preparation for
handling problems identified during development; and the follow-up on product
configuration management.
For example, modification request is needed for the insulin pump system which is
the problem regarding sensor.

2. Analysis stage
In this phase or stage, problems and requirements of the insulin pump software
need to be analyzed and identified before it can proceed to design phase.
As for example, client gave a feedback that the insulin pump has a problem in
measuring the level of sugar in the human body. So, it is required to be repair of
its sensor problem and maybe the bugs that disturb the sensor.

3. Design stage
After problems and requirements are gathered, our team will make a design
which is suitable to overcome the problem and improve the insulin pump
problems.
For example, the structure of the system should be improve and change
accordingly what is best for the system to have a better sensor so that the same
sensor problem could not be repeated again.
Estimated life span: 2 months.

4. Implementation stage

The implementation process contains software preparation and transition

activities, such as the conception and creation of the maintenance plan; the
preparation for handling problems identified during development; and the followup on product configuration management.
For example, after the design has been done, it is time to implement the design
of the insulin pump whether it is suitable for the problem arises or not.

5. System test stage

This is where the internal of the system will be tested. It is said that the system
test will test overall of the fixed and all of other parts.
For example, if the insulin pump had the sensor problem, this phase will test
overall system and this is how we can detect other problem that might arises
after improved and change the system of the insulin pump.

6. Acceptance test stage

This stage is a phase where all the members of the team will be grouped and a
discussion will be conducted to state whether the maintenance of the insulin
pump will be accept or not.
For example, if the insulin pump got other problem, the system should not be
moved on the next stage.

7. Delivery stage
This phase can be also known as deployment stage where the insulin program or
system will be deployed as an execution program.
For example, when everyone or all members in the team accepted the improved
insulin pump system, it is the time where the system is ready to be delivered and
deploy as an executable program which it is more suitable for the end-user.

References

https://voer.edu.vn/m/software-maintenance/67b20d7b
http://rti.etf.bg.ac.rs/rti/ms1es/Literatura/Grubb_Takang-Software_Maintenance_Ch5.pdf
http://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105087/pdf/m14L36.pdf