Tips: October 2008 Archives

Tip – Understand the CountPath Metric

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KevinG
on October 21, 2008 1:43 PM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

So imagine you’re reviewing metrics for a small function:

  61 lines of code, pretty small, keeping functionality nice and modular. Good.

  Cyclomatic complexity of 30. Highly complex, but within the acceptable range. Good.

  CountPath metric 536,870,912. What is this? 536 Million paths in 61 lines of code, that can’t be right, can it?!?

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Tip - Automated Metrics

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KevinG
on October 13, 2008 11:22 AM | | Comments (0) | TrackBacks (0)

Several people have asked me lately about automating metrics with Understand 2.0. There are two quick ways to automate metrics, as a scheduled activity and via the command line:

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