If not corrected, such violations can transform the architecture into a monolithic block, with adverse effects on understandability, maintainability, and evolvability.
en.wikipedia.org Acquaintance is a weaker relationship than aggregation and suggests much looser coupling between objects, which can often be desirable for maximum maintainability in a design.
en.wikipedia.org The use of such a device truly can improve the writability, readability and maintainability of a piece of code, but is likely to prove controversial.
en.wikipedia.org The ability to easily compose functions encourages factoring (breaking apart) functions for maintainability and code reuse.
en.wikipedia.org However, a vast majority of these applications continue to be developed in an ad-hoc way, contributing to problems of usability, maintainability, quality and reliability.
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