Productive maintainability
Manuel José Barranco García, Juan Carlos Granja Álvarez · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 1996
It is obvious the existence of a powerful connection between quality and productivity in the software projects. Normally, an increase of quality bring to a greater productivity. Maintainability is a very important factor of quality, considering the enormous consumption of resources that is carried out during the maintenance stage. We comment in this article the relation between maintainability and productivity, and when the maintainability result productive and when not.