{"id":128,"date":"2007-01-10T16:58:35","date_gmt":"2007-01-10T16:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quinert.com\/stblog\/?p=128"},"modified":"2007-01-10T16:58:35","modified_gmt":"2007-01-10T16:58:35","slug":"investing-for-maintenance-tradeoffs-and-calculations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/2007\/01\/10\/investing-for-maintenance-tradeoffs-and-calculations\/","title":{"rendered":"Investing for maintenance &#8211; Tradeoffs and calculations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the context-driven software testing Yahoo group, there has been an interesting thread on magic numbers.  Part of this discussion related to magic numbers for software maintenance investment.  While I think you can find plenty of literature that advises a bias towards maintenance, my friend <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruschena.org\/michael\">Michael<\/a> couldn&#8217;t find any models that satisfied our burning questions, so he built his own.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ruschena.org\/michael\/?p=97\">Check it out<\/a>, and thank him for doing my homework \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the context-driven software testing Yahoo group, there has been an interesting thread on magic numbers. Part of this discussion related to magic numbers for software maintenance investment. While I think you can find plenty of literature that advises a bias towards maintenance, my friend Michael couldn&#8217;t find any models that satisfied our burning questions, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,29,32],"tags":[74,86],"class_list":["post-128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-modelling-skills","category-software-development","category-systems-thinking","tag-software-maintenance","tag-tradeoffs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.software-testing.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}