How Maintainability Affects Production Incidents

In today’s highly competitive business landscape, enterprises are under constant pressure to deliver high quality products and services quickly while maintaining high levels of availability and reliability.

However, production incidents (i.e. an unexpected interruption to or reduction in the quality of a software service running in a Production environment) can disrupt these efforts, leading to downtime, lost revenue, and damage to your company’s reputation.

Through an analysis of over 3,000 software development applications, spanning over 5 years and over 43,000 production incidents, BlueOptima is able to account for a third of these production incidents using just two factors: coding throughput and code maintainability.

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