# Spec Maintenance

> The degree of ongoing effort to keep a specification current as the system evolves.

Record: `lexicon:spec-maintenance`
Kind: quality-attribute
Layer: [Computation Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/computation-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-spec-maintenance

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Shrinking/Debug Complexity](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/shrinking-debug-complexity.md) and before [Stateful IO](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/stateful-io.md).

## Category

- [Correctness / Determinism / Verification](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/correctness-determinism-verification.md)

## In tension with

- [Specification-Based Testing](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/specification-based-testing.md)
- [Specification-Based Testing / Spec Maintenance](https://banes-lab.com/records/tension/spec-maintenance-specification-based-testing.md)

## Linked from

- [Correctness / Determinism / Verification](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-correctness-determinism-verification.md)
- [The resolutions](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/schema/the-resolutions.md)