maintainability

Maintainability is the ease of maintaining or providing maintenance for a functioning product or service. Depending on the field, it can have slightly different meanings.

== Usage in different fields == === Engineering === In engineering, maintainability is the ease with which a product can be maintained to: correct defects or their cause, Repair or replace faulty or worn-out components without having to replace still working parts, prevent unexpected working conditions, maximize a product's useful life, maximize efficiency, reliability, and safety, meet new requirements, make future maintenance easier, or cope with a changing environment.