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Metric by which to hold developers accountable
I asked a question on lines of code per hour and got torn a new one. So my matured follow-up question is this:
If not lines of code, then what is a good metric by which to measure (by the ...
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What personal milestones can you use to measure growth in your programming abilities?
How can you determine objectively, over time, that you are getting any better at producing code? For example, I may sit here and feel that "I know <language> now, and I use <technique> ...
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What are useful metrics for source code?
What are useful metrics to capture for source code?
How can metrics, like for example (Executable?) Lines of Code or Cyclomatic Complexity help with quality assurance or how are they beneficial in ...
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How is software scalability measured?
I was asked to make some small technical presentation about specific application scalability. The application is developed using Java, Spring MVC, Hibernate. I have access to the application source ...
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Are SMART goals useful for programmers?
Several organisations I know use SMART goals for their programmers. SMART is an acronym for Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Relevant and Time-Bound. They are fairly common in large corporations.
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What is a normal “functional lines of code” to “test lines of code” ratio?
I'm pretty new to TDD approach and my first experiments say that writing 1 line of functional code means writing about 2-3 lines of testing code. So, in case I'm going to write 1000 LOC, the whole ...
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How does one meaningfully measure maintainability?
Context: I'm an enterprise developer in an all-MS shop.
Can anyone recommend a good way of objectively measuring maintainability of a piece of code or an application?
Why maintainability: I'm tired ...
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Objective Metrics for Software Quality
There are various types of quality that can be measured in software products, e.g. fitness for purpose (e.g. end use), maintainability, efficiency. Some of these are somewhat subjective or domain ...
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industry averages for time spent on maintenance
A manager recently announced that were were spending far too much time fixing bugs. I guess he thinks we should write perfect code all the time (whilst still hitting those impossible deadlines of ...
