Source Code Metrics

What is your source code telling you?
Careful analysis of your source code can yield a variety of useful statistics. Understanding the statistics available and their use in project management and code improvement activities can add value to your development process. Follow our tips and start putting source code statistics to use today.

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Source Line Statistics

Learn about source code growth curves and their use in monitoring development progress and determining component stability. Understand comment density and the source code implications on ease of understanding.

McCabe Cyclomatic Complexity Metrics

Research has shown that minimising complexity is a key to writing high quality code. Find out the uses that cyclomatic complexity can play in your development. Tips include: Identification of complex code. Assessment of ease of understanding. Assessment of modification risk. Assessment of unit testing effort. How to simplify complex code.

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