Software maintenance is the irreplaceable stage in the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and is the most extended, more complex, and costly one. The maintenance phase starts when the software is delivered to the end user and ends after the software goes out of service. In this paper, we review the essential software maintenance models. Also, we propose a model for performing maintenance in the Cloud Computing environment due to the characteristics of the Cloud that would facilitate this process.
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