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Maintainability

GCSE Computer Science · key term

Maintainability

Definition

How easily a program’s source code can be understood, corrected and modified.

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OCR GCSE Computer Science · J277

Paper 2

Maintainability describes how easily the source code can be understood, corrected and modified.
Revise: Program Maintainability
The ease with which a program can be understood, corrected and modified after it has been written.
Revise: Levels of Programming Languages

OCR Computer Science past papers

Exam tips

1
When explaining a maintainability feature, link it to a benefit: for example, meaningful names help a programmer understand what stored values represent.

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