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# Introduction

UCA : University Côte d'Azur (french Riviera University)

This course aims to introduce Software maintenance by illustrative examples and the state of the art. In this course, teams of 3-4 students works on a Software maintenance problem. During a 7 week period, the students spent 4 hours by weeks on this course. Students will write this book, in English or French, explaining their own experiments.

Details of the approach is [there](https://mireilleblayfornarino.i3s.unice.fr/doku.php?id=teaching:reverse:2018:start)

This work draws heavily on : [2016](https://www.gitbook.com/book/delftswa/desosa2016/details) (et new ones [2018](https://legacy.gitbook.com/book/delftswa/desosa2018/details))


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