Maintainability

Kind: quality-attribute

Layer: Human Factors

Record: lexicon:maintainability

Canonical: Lexicon

The ease with which a system can be corrected, adapted, and extended over its lifetime.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Debuggability and before Complexity.

Category

• Quality Attributes

Enabled by

• Separation of Concerns
• Do Not Repeat Yourself
• Manual Identity Migration

Reinforced by

• Design Review
• Pattern Consistency

In tension with

• Performance Engineering
• Performance Engineering / Maintainability

Linked from

• Correctness / Determinism / Verification
• Core Modular Design
• Architecture Review / Evolution / Governance Artifacts
• Scalability / Performance / Optimization
• Taxonomy / Classification / Naming
• Transactions / State / Concurrency
• The resolutions