Software engineering

Question

Why system costs more to maintain than it does to develop?

Answer 1

Saber Ahmadzai I can read this question in so many different contexts. What specific scenario are you referring to?

Costs for maintaining a system could apply to any number of contexts:

- Deploy and never touch the code
- Deploy and continue developing
- Expanding infrastructure to support increased usage.
- Addressing technical debt due to tight deadlines.
- Challenges related to impact of changing code in a much larger and more complex code bases.
- Poor design leading to brittle code that requires more effort to develop in.
- Preserving backwards compatibility can take more effort to avoid breaking changes.
- Support staff needed to assist with technical problems.
- Hosting costs accrued over time.
- Upgrading dependencies can be very involved.
- Training people to use the system.
- Training people to support the system.

These are just a few that come to mind from my own experiences.

Answer 2

All is the same but as far as I know a java application is costly as in terms of maintenance.
Java always needs debugging and that annoys your users

Answer 3

David Carroll you have a point

Answer 4

David Carroll thanks dear