Environments Maintenance

Definition

Environments maintenance is the environments engineering task of maintaining the environments prior to the usage phase.

Objectives

The typical objectives of the environments maintenance task are to:

• Ensure that the following environments function properly:
  • Management Environment
  • Development Environments:
    • Reuse Environment
    • Engineering Environment
    • Multimedia Environment
    • Integration Environment
    • Test Environment
    • Staging Environment

Preconditions

The environments maintainance task can typically begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The environments team is adequately staffed and trained in environments maintenance.
• The environments production task is mostly complete.

Completion Criteria

The environments maintainance task is typically complete when the following postconditions hold:

• The usage phase has started.

Steps

The environments maintainance task typically involves the environments team performing the following steps:

• TBD

Techniques

The environments maintainance task can typically be performed using the following techniques:

• TBD

Work Products

The environments maintainance task typically results in the production of the following work products:

• TBD

Guidelines

• Care should be taken to avoid unnecessary overlap between this task and the tasks of the maintenance activity.