>Keith Shillington wrote:
>>
>> How do you measure the amenability of a design to change?  What salient
>> quantifiable characteristic of a design is this?
>>
>> At 12:23 AM 11/20/97 -0500, (No Name Available) wrote:
>> >I view Maintainability as covering more than the sum of the other
>> >qualities listed.  Consider how amenable the design is to changes
>> >in requirements which might reasonably be expected for the problem
>> >domain.
>> >
>> >Larry Kilgallen
>
>
>Bear in mind that the original question was how to check off
>"maintainable" in a review, not how to derive a metric.  There
>is only ONE valid way to use a metric, and that's in conjunction
>with a mind.  Raw numbers give little, or negative, value.
>
>The list you provided (in equation form) of measurable
>items is a good set of measurements.
>
>I'd add to your list that the unit should be well modularized --
>whether with procedures or inline code formatting, it should be clear
>where one activity ends and another begins.


Remember Parnas's "secrets."  Maintainability is the surprise best
seller flip side of changability; you can't buy one w/o the other.      -- hh