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Over the years, cumulative data have shown that maintenance is a major cost concern—as a matter of fact, a growing cost concern (Pigoski, 1997). The maintainability of a system seems to have much influence on the ease or difficulty to implement changes. A consensus has emerged among the research community that the maintainability of a software system is dependent on its design (Rombach, 1990), in the procedural paradigm as well as in the object-oriented paradigm.
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Chaumun, M.A., Kabaili, H., Keller, R.K., Lustman, F. (2002). Design Properties and Evolvability of Object-Oriented Systems. In: Erdogmus, H., Tanir, O. (eds) Advances in Software Engineering. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-21599-0_10
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