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Considering a Port to .NET Core? Use NDepend

An American colloquialism holds, “only two things are certain: death and taxes.”  If I had to appropriate that for the software industry, I might say that the two certainties are death and...
Erik Dietrich August 25, 2016

Plugging Leaky Abstractions

In 2002, Joel Spolsky coined something he called “The Law of Leaky Abstractions.”  In software, an “abstraction” hides complexity of an underlying system from those using the abstraction.  Examples abound, but...
Erik Dietrich August 18, 2016

Measure Your Code to Get Back on Track

When I’m called in for strategy advice on a codebase, I never arrive to find a situation where all parties want to tell me how wonderfully things are going.  As...
Erik Dietrich August 11, 2016

Managing Code Analysis Statistics with the NDepend API

If you’re familiar with NDepend, you’re probably familiar with the Visual Studio plugin, the out of the box metrics, the excellent visualization tools, and the iconic Zone of Uselessness/Zone of...
Erik Dietrich August 4, 2016