Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...

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Many software testing tools include a statistic known as the McCabe cyclomatic complexity metric in their reports. The term itself is a bit confusing, as the metric isn't specifically about code ...

Technologies mentioned in this article include the Entity Framework, ADO.NET, VB.NET, and C#. Q I'd like to use the Code Metrics of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to explain to management the degree ...

The software industry has a cyclic love-hate relationship with code metrics. At times, metrics appear to be quite helpful and at other times, doubt regarding their efficacy casts a short-lived shadow, ...

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One of the central problems in software engineering is the inherited complexity. Since the software is the result of human creative activities, cognitive informatics plays an important role in ...

Among programmers, there has long been a dispute between those who want a language to constrain them and those who want great flexibility. If you have been programming for a while, you'll understand ...