5Cognitive Psychology and Architectural Principles
The goal of durable architecture is to reduce development and maintenance costs. Software should be easily modifiable. The software development team should be able to quickly navigate the source code and its structures during their work. This is particularly important because developers and architects spend most of their time reading and understanding code (see fig. 5-1).
Figure 5-1 Typical code reading and writing ratio
Analyzability
If you have to spend a lot of time reading and understanding source code, it is extremely important that the source code has a structure that is easy to navigate. ...
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