Month: December 2015
With Code Metrics, Trends are King
December 31, 2015 2 minutes read Here’s a scene that’s familiar to any software developer. You sit down to work with the source code of a new team or project...
Let’s Build a Metric: Global and Local Scope
December 24, 2015 4 minutes read Last time in this series, I began an exploration of how a method might be impacted by the scope of the variables that it...
Be Careful with Software Metaphors
December 17, 2015 6 minutes read Over the years, there have been any number of popular software metaphors that help people radically misunderstand the realities of software development. Probably the...
The Most Important Code Metrics You’ve Never Heard Of
December 10, 2015 6 minutes read Oh, how I hope you don’t measure developer productivity by lines of code. As Bill Gates once ably put it, “measuring software productivity by lines...
NDepend updated to Version 6.2
December 3, 2015 2 minutes read NDepend version 6.2 has just been released. We have addressed over 20 bug fixes, including a blocker one for Visual Studio 2015 update 1 Git...
Let’s Build a Metric: Using CQLinq to Reason about Application State
December 3, 2015 4 minutes read I’ve been letting the experiments run for a bit before posting results so as to give all participants enough time to submit, if they...