Software:Critical mass (software engineering)

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Short description: Software engineering term

In software engineering, critical mass is a stage in the life cycle when the source code grows too complicated to effectively manage without a complete rewrite.[1] At the critical mass stage, fixing a bug introduces one or more new bugs.[2]

Tools such as high-level programming languages and techniques such as programming in the large, code refactoring and test-driven development, exist to make it easier to maintain large, complicated programs.

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References

  1. ↑ "Sharks, Debts, Critical Mass and other reasons to Sustain Quality". http://www.testingreflections.com/node/view/8429. 
  2. ↑ "critical mass". Catb.org. http://catb.org/jargon/html/C/critical-mass.html. 





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