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maintainability comparison table

Subject	cause	describe	cause by	observe by	be	affect by	reduce	is a subtopic of	is a kind of	have a direct impact on	increase by	constrain by
low maintainability	defects that reduce reliability	the ease with which the software can be changed	a highly efficient design that is hard to understand	stakeholders	hard to assess	complexity of code	costs for both developers and customers	1.5 - Software Quality	maintainability	stakeholders	the use of modularity	software architecture

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