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Modernizing a Security Alarm System

Journal Article (2025)
Author(s)

Diomidis Spinellis (Athens University of Economics and Business, TU Delft - Software Engineering)

Research Group
Software Engineering
DOI related publication
https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2025.3539364
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Publication Year
2025
Language
English
Research Group
Software Engineering
Bibliographical Note
Green Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.@en
Issue number
3
Volume number
42
Pages (from-to)
18-21
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Abstract

IN CONTRAST TO physical objects and living things, software doesn’t deteriorate with the passage of time. While we age and our shoes fall apart, digital storage ensures that the software’s bits stay immutable. And yet, software needs substantial maintenance over time, owing to changes in its environment.1 Advancing technology and new requirements prompt us to modernize the software to keep it relevant. Here, I show how these changes happen in practice by describing the evolution and modernization of a burglar alarm security system I first developed a quarter-century ago. […]

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