What Is Software Maintainability

Whether you are an owner, a manager or a developer of a software company, the extent to which you succeed in reaching your short and long term professional goals also depends on how maintainable the developed software is.

Since software maintainability is such an influential concept, we strongly believe that everyone should have a clear picture about what it exactly is, which factors are influencing it and how it can affect your goals set. In order to minimize the negative effects of a poorly maintainable system, one also needs to know what the current level of software maintainability is, evaluate if that level is sufficient and take the necessary corrective actions.

By publishing a series of blog posts, we intend to provide you with all the relevant information on software maintainability that is needed to understand and control it. This very first blog post introduces the subject of software maintainability.