Software Engineering

8.4 
Sustainment analysis tasks
The sustainment analysis tasks address specifying the requirements for product dis-
tribution, training, and support. As the software product architecture is developed, 
the requirements for replication, distribution, training, and sustainment processes 
must be revisited to ensure that the post-development processes have been ade-
quately specified.
8.4.1 
Identify post-development process operational concepts
The software post-development processes must be specified, and eventually 
designed, implemented, and tested. The primary post-development processes that 
affect software products are software replication, distribution, training, and sustain-
ment. Software products are unique in that they are a media that can be distributed 
electronically over the Internet, or packaged and distributed to customers or retail 
outlets.
The sustainment concept should address how the end users, customers, comput-
ing environment, and software product will be supported once the software product 
is deployed or distributed. Software support involves software modifications that fix 
reported errors and enhancements of the software product through the addition of 

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