Question

In the 1970s, the software life-cycle concept (Booch, 1987) was developed; coding was relegated to a much smaller role, and maintenance was recognized as a major part of the cycle, particularly in terms of cost. The ease of maintenance is determined in large part by the ____ of programs. This became an important measure of the quality of programs and programming languages.

Answer 1

Answer:

The word in blank will be Readability

Explanation:

Because readability has major role in maintenance of programs because when a program is written and after some year a company wants to upgrade the software or wants to remove bugs and issues so company maybe re analyze the program and if the programmer of that program has left the job than readability of program will help new programmers working on that  software to understand that what mistake is done and where is done. Readability also helps programmer of that code to understand his own logic.