# Maintenance

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### **Maintenance %**&#x20;

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**Maintenance** refers to the lines of code modified that were written before the last 30 days / total lines of code added or modified.

* Less maintenance means that engineers write a very well-maintainable piece of code as the team builds new features.
* Higher maintenance represents a longer time to build new features or testing fatigue. When maintenance is high, estimates are usually off, as it's hard to account for maintenance during estimates.

#### Industry Benchmarking

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