Codebase Risk
Codebase Risk
Large amounts of code in a project slow down development and reduce developer effectiveness because complexity has to be managed. The larger a codebase, the more bugs and vulnerabilities it will contain.
“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” - Bill Gates
Using open source software can often reduce Codebase Risk since it hands off the maintainance of portions of the codebase to third parties. However, this doesn't mean that using open source code is risk-free. Codebase Risk in the form of vulnerabities and functional mismatch still exist.
Codebase Risk is a risk caused by having a large, complex codebase to manage. - Complexity Risk, Risk First
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