How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase?

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An anonymous reader writes "A report released this morning looks at the maintainability level of the Firefox codebase through five measures of architectural complexity. It finds that 11% of files in Firefox are highly interconnected, a value that went up significantly following version 3.0 and that making a change to a randomly selected file can, on average, directly impact eight files and indirectly impact over 1,400 files. All the data is made available and the report comes with an interactive Web-based exploratory tool." The complexity exploration tool is pretty neat. http://a.fsdn.com/sd/twitter_icon_large.png (http://twitter.com/home?status=How+Maintainable+Is+the+Firefox+Codeba se%3F%3A+http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2F181HoTg) http://a.fsdn.com/sd/facebook_icon_large.png (http://www.facebook.com/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnews.slashdot.org%2Fstor y%2F13%2F05%2F15%2F1540249%2Fhow-maintainable-is-the-firefox-codebase%3Futm_source%3Dslashdot%26utm_medium%3Dfa cebook) http://www.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png (http://plus.google.com/share?url=http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/05/15/1540249/how-maintainable-is-the-firefox-codebase?utm_source=slashdot&utm_medium=googleplus)

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