This isn't really a psychology of programming question, more of a software
engineering one... Does anybody know of any surveys of software
maintenance personnel? Generally maintenance seems to be an activity that
does not have a lot of prestige attached to it. Would this have an effect
upon the 'type' of people that are given maintenance tasks? Highly thought
of developers undertake high prestige development projects, while new
programmers may be assigned mundane, rather dull maintenance tasks. It
'feels' like an area where something must have been published...
Thanks in advance!
Chris Douce
