Questions tagged [code-metrics]
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In the context of imperative languages, I am looking for a metric to describe how "functional", in the sense of "non-imperative", a software module is
I am using TypeScript with classes, interfaces and polymorphism.
A large portion of my project is basically a functional TypeScript-based DSL (domain specific language) that can be used to configure ...
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Is there a software quality metric related to side effects?
In large systems there are often code paths that modify state or produce side effects that other code comes to depend on. This makes it hard to safely change code without understanding the whole ...
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Number of lines of code executed per line of code: Are there significant differences per language? [closed]
Having fewer lines of code per feature is typically better as it increases the developer productivity. Did anyone ever measure the number of code lines executions per line of code across multiple ...
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counting identifiers and operators as code size metric
I'm looking for a code metric for monitor and track over time the size of several projects and their components.
Also, I would like to use it for:
evaluate size reduction after refactoring
compare ...
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What exactly are the Operators and Operands in Halstead Metrics?
Can anybody point me to the official source where it is explained what are operators and operands in Halstead Metrics for code, I would prefer the original paper by Halstead. Please don't post the ...
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Summing cyclomatic complexity of function or files
Is the sum of the cyclomatic complexity of all section in a file the total cyclomatic complexity for this file? If it is, is the sum of a set of related files the total cyclomatic complexity for this ...
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Class Divisibility Metric
A few years ago I was using Sonar (before it was SonarQube) to analyze some Java code, and I remember seeing a useful metric that would come in handy again today. However it does not appear to be ...
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How to prove business benefit in software refactoring? [duplicate]
By these days I work in a legacy code that uses JAVA.
The project has a code tightly coupled and low cohesion.
All my teammates suffer to make changes in the software, one reason is that we haven't ...
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Relation between LOC and Cyclomatic Complexity
Is there something that ratio of the metrics LOC and Sum Cyclomatic Complexity in a project with many modules can talk about?
Does it show the logical complexity of a module/project?
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When should I care about code metrics in Visual Studio?
Occasionally I look at the code metrics in visual studio for my solution. I don't ever see anything I would find alarming. My maintainability is usually pretty high with exception to some obvious ...
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how to measure defects per KLOC
I have been reading on the internet about the metric "number of bugs per 1000 lines of code" and what would be a good number.
However, I wonder how someone would compute such a metric? The reason a ...
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How to calculate Cyclomatic Complexity exactly?
My question is more about the transformation from programming code to control flow graph.
Say, I have a piece of code:
public class Contractor
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WMC Calculation in CK Metrics Suite
I have two classes C1 and C2. C1 has 2 methods and C2 has 3 methods each of complexity value 1. C2 inherits from C1. So, I know C2 has 2+3=5 methods in all. The question is, should I take C2 to have 5 ...
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Is measuring the binary size of a c++ program a good indication of code complexity? Or something else?
In my company we have this obligatory practice before a review to be send the binary size impact of the code change to be measured and provided.
We must use -Os for this metric to avoid ...
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Why in cyclomatic complexity we add 1 for operators within a condition?
I know that basically, CC can be computed as number of decision + 1. In addition, every logical operator in the condition causes CC to increase by 1. But why?
Having the code if(A || B || C) else... ...
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