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Software Rewrite: The Chase

Last week, a post I wrote, “The Myth of the Software Rewrite“, became pretty popular.  This generated a lot of comments and discussion, so I decided just to write a...
Erik Dietrich October 29, 2015

Relax. Everyone’s Code Rots

I earn my living, or part of it, anyway, doing something very awkward.  I get called in to assess and analyze codebases for health and maintainability.  As you can no...
Erik Dietrich October 22, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 6: Cyclomatic Complexity Explained

In the last installment of this series, I talked a good bit about lines of code. As it turns out, the question, “what is a line of code?” is actually more...
Erik Dietrich October 15, 2015

Hidden Costs in Your Software

One of the things I remember most vividly from my CIO days was the RFP process for handling spikes in demands on my group’s time.  In case you haven’t participated in...
Erik Dietrich October 8, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 5: Flavors of Lines of Code

The last episode of this series was heavy on theory, so let’s balance it out a bit with some applied science. The lofty goal of this series of posts is...
Erik Dietrich October 1, 2015

Bringing Objectivity to Clean Code

If you want to stir up a pretty serious amount of discussion-churn, wander over to where the software developers sit and ask for a consensus definition of “clean code.”  This...
Erik Dietrich September 24, 2015

The Myth of the Software Rewrite

“We can’t go on like this.  We need to rewrite this thing from scratch.” The Writing is on the Wall These words infuriate CIOs and terrify managers and directors of...
Erik Dietrich September 17, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 4: Science and Experiments

Last time around, I promised a foray into Newtonian mechanics, so I might as well start with that.  This is the equation for gravitational force, one of the 4 fundamental...
Erik Dietrich September 10, 2015

Managing to Avoid Cobras

Incentives are a funny thing.  Done well, they can spur your team to productivity and career-advancing, win-win situations.  Done not so well, they can create havoc. As this point, I...
Erik Dietrich September 3, 2015

A Test Coverage Primer for Managers

Managing Blind Let me see if I can get in your head a little bit.  You manage a team of developers and it goes well at times.  But, at other...
Erik Dietrich August 27, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 3: Compositeness

Last time, I talked through a little bit of housekeeping on the way to creating a metric that would be, uniquely, ours.  Nevermind the fact that, under the hood, the...
Erik Dietrich August 20, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 2: Getting the Units Right

Last time in this series, there was definitely some housekeeping to accomplish.  I laid the groundwork for the series by talking a bit of theory — what are code metrics...
Erik Dietrich August 13, 2015

Let’s Build a Metric 1: What’s in a Metric?

A while back, I made a post on my blog announcing the commencement of a series on building a better, composite code metric.  Well, it’s time to get started! But before...
Erik Dietrich August 6, 2015

A Software Architect’s Best Friend

To this day, I have a persistent nightmare about my time in college.  It’s always pretty similar.  I wake up and I have a final exam later in the day,...
Erik Dietrich July 29, 2015

Why Should Managers Care About Static Analysis?

I’d like to talk a bit today about how, if you’re a dev manager for a team or teams that are responsible for .NET code bases, NDepend will help you...
Erik Dietrich July 22, 2015

Toward Bug Free Software: Lines of Defense

Hurrah!! Last week we released NDepend v6 RTM. Once again we relied on a 2 months private beta-testing period and a one month Release Candidate period to do our best to release a polished...
Patrick Smacchia July 21, 2015

Using NDepend to Make You a Better Programmer

If you’re a software developer, particularly of the newly minted variety, the concept of static analysis might not seem approachable.  It sounds academic.  It sounds architect-y.  It sounds complicated.  I’ve seen...
Erik Dietrich July 15, 2015

Static Analysis : Code as Data

A lot of programmers have some idea of what static analysis is, as least superficially.  If I mention the term, what pops into your head?  Automatic enforcement of coding standards? ...
Erik Dietrich July 8, 2015

NDepend version 6 insights

Welcome to the brand new NDepend blog! This blog will talk about NDepend of course, announcements, directions, features advanced usage, but this blog will also talk about related topics including,...
Patrick Smacchia June 16, 2015