IfSQ

DP-5—Information Exposed

Defect Indicators: (This information is currently under review and available only to Members and Fellows.)

Risks: (This information is currently under review and available only to Members and Fellows.)

Assessment: (This information is currently under review and available only to Members and Fellows.)

Remedy: (This information is currently under review and available only to Members and Fellows.)

References:

• An Empirical Study of Modularity on Program Modifiability (Timothy D. Korson, and Vijay K. Vaishnavi), 1986.

Research Findings:

• Information-Hiding makes large programs 4 times easier to modify:
  Large programs that use information hiding are a factor 4 easier to modify than programs which don't.