Modernizing a Security Alarm System

Journal Article (2025)

Authors

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

Research Group

Software Engineering

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2025

Language

English

Research Group

Software Engineering

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18-21

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https://doi.org/10.1109/MS.2025.3539364

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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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