Maintainability is itself a measure of the ease to modify code, higher maintainability means less time to make a change. Coding standards are a way to achieve high maintainability and are developed as a …

While responding to this question, I began to wonder why so many developers believe a good design should not account for performance because doing so would affect readability and/or maintainability...

Jul 16, 2025 · Q&A for professionals, academics, and students working within the systems development life cycle

Apr 28, 2012 · Maintainability is a major stake of professional software development. Indeed, maintenance is nearly always the longest part of a software life cycle, as it lasts from the project …

Feb 22, 2018 · Looking at the above statement, maintainability is still a major challenge if functions H1 and H2 both alter the same "system state variables" instead of being unified into a single "H" …

Mar 30, 2012 · Yes, it is always recommendable to focus on correctness first, then readability and maintainability, then - if ever - on performance. In the majority of cases nowadays, performance is …

Context: I'm an enterprise developer in an all-MS shop. Can anyone recommend a good way of objectively measuring maintainability of a piece of code or an application? Why maintainability: I'm tir...

The key to maintainability is skill level based layering For example: Cross-project libraries: senior devs, full back of tricks code/idiom/techniques Project specific libraries and system backend: medior …

Jun 1, 2023 · The quest for simple elegant code doesn’t always align with comprehension and maintainability. An OR test,vs an AND test, doesn’t require all of the functions to execute as others …

Jan 10, 2012 · As an example of using purity extensively to help maintainability, you can see GHC. It is a large project about 20 years old where large refactorings are being done and new major features are …