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| maintainability | can reduce costs for both developers and customers |  |
| has definition An important quality of software that measures the extent to which the software can be modified at the lowest possible cost | | |
| describes the ease with which the software can be changed | | |
| is a subtopic of 1.5 - Software Quality | | |
| is affected by commenting | | |
| is affected by complexity of code | | |
| is constrained by software architecture | | |
| is increased by the use of modularity | | |
| is a kind of external software quality | | |
| is a kind of measurement | | |
| external software quality | can be observed by stakeholders | |
| has a direct impact on stakeholders | | |
| software quality | is hard to assess | |
Kinds of maintainability :