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modification of a software product after delivery
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software maintenance

Summary

software maintenance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (280 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • software maintenance is a type of maintenance[2].
  • software maintenance is a type of software development[3].
  • software maintenance's Commons category is recorded as Software maintenance[4].
  • software maintenance's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Software maintenance[5].
  • software maintenance's described by source is recorded as Software Engineering Body of Knowledge[6].
  • software maintenance's NCI Thesaurus ID is recorded as C67227[7].
  • software maintenance's ACM Classification Code is recorded as 10003505[8].

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Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include maintenance[2] and software development[3].

Why It Matters

software maintenance ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (280 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 19 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[9] It is known by 3 alternative names across languages and contexts.[10]

Related Entities

software development

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [9] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [10] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 5w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-26 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Aliases → —
    Subclass of → maintenance, software development
    Described by source → Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
    + 1 other property edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ [[Property:P8189]]: 987007553560505171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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