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Item SOFTWARE MAINTENANCE ADAPTATION IN SOFTWARE COMPANIES: A CASE STUDY FOR TURKEY(2022-01-10) AL-BAKOA, ABDULLAH KHALID ABD ALRAHMAN; Yazıcı, AliSoftware Maintenance is used as an improvement and modification of software products after they have been delivered to the customer in terms of improving performance, increasing speed or adapting the software to a specific software application. In terms of overall cost of a software project, maintenance process is the one with the highest cost among the other Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) activities. In this study, software maintenance models are discussed and compared in terms of cost, ease of use, and by stating the advanyages and disadvantages of each. Additionally, a survey was conducted to understand the approach taken by the Turkish software companies to conduct the maintenance process. The survey was distributed to over 100 companies with different sizes and results collected from 29 companies are analysed. It was observed that, companies are reluctant to use tools to manage software maintenance. At the same time, majority of the maintenance staff lacks the proper certification on the subject and this is not considered as a big constraint by the companies.