Month: February 2016
NDepend vs. ReSharper
Not too long ago, someone asked me for a comparison of ReSharper (commonly and affectionately abbreviated R#) and NDepend. I didn’t really grok the question, so I asked, “in what...
The Better Code Book – Our MVPs of 2015
We firmly believe spaghetti belongs on the dinner table and not in code. Our mission when starting NDepend was to create a tool to make best coding practices easier to...
How Siemens Healthcare manages over 500 million lines of code – An NDepend Case Study
Siemens Healthcare produces imaging equipment for the medical sector in a variety of fields and is based in Germany. Looking to reduce development costs on the next generation of medical imaging...
Let’s Build a Metric Reconsidered
If you’ve been keeping track, you’ll noticed that it’s been a while since the last post in this series. In case you’d forgotten or lost track, the primary goal is to...
Bridging the Communication Gap Between Developers and Architects
If you want to set off a ceaseless, spirited discussion, ask a roomful of people what makes some music good and other music bad. The opinions are likely to be...
Put a Little NDepend in your Visual Studio
The software development world is filled with what I think of as “Coke-Pepsi” debates. This is how my brain categorizes debates over preference that are almost entirely subjective. There is...