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 …

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 …

Jun 13, 2017 · Occasionally I look at the code metrics in visual studio for my solution. I don't ever see anything I would find alarming. My maintainability is usually pretty high with exception to …

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 …

Mar 12, 2019 · Q&A for professionals, academics, and students working within the systems development life cycle

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, …

One who cares to make his code clean, usually cares to make it efficient. Hardware becomes cheaper with time. Programmers don't get cheaper over time. CPU time is cheaper than …

Apr 8, 2021 · No one is really promoting unnecessary code duplication. You don't usually have a choice between orthogonal (DRY) and duplicate (WET) code. “WET” is a bit of a strawman for …

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 …

Jul 16, 2025 · One of the "Maintainability" issues (severity: medium) raised is the CA-1822: Mark members as static. The link explains the added value of such change, but I am wondering: …