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Cyclomatic Complexity Ranges
What are the categories of cyclomatic complexity? For example:
1-5: easy to maintain
6-10: difficult
11-15: very difficult
20+: approaching impossible
For years now, I've gone with the assumption ...
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Software failure due to maintenance oversights example/case study
I'm doing some investigation into the role of maintenance in software development and the use of metrics within the development cycle.
What I am asking is for a point in the right direction or ...
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Code network metrics with UI events [closed]
There is a large body of literature regarding using network metrics (e.g. degree) for predicting defects. Something I'm running into is that a lot of my code is event-driven, so I have a large number ...
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What is a good measure of testing/tester efficiency?
I am about to participate in a discussion with management regarding measuring our testing efficiency as a QA organization. The main reason behind this is that half of our team is contracted out and ...
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Is the average number of bugs per loc the same for different programming languages?
I have been told that the average number of bugs/defects per line of code is "constant" for different programming languages. 10 KLOC of Ruby would have the same number of bugs as 10 KLOC of c++. The ...
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Why is the cyclomatic complexity equal to two for a simple Hello World?
I would have two questions related to cyclomatic complexity:
Can I use this metric for a whole app? I guess I cannot, as it would be incredibly large number, considering functions calling functions ...
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Is there any open source code analyzer for java which I can adopt my software metrics algorithm on it? [closed]
I am doing my masters dissertation and I have conducted a software metrics. I need to adopt my metrics on an open source tool. I have found PMD and check style on sourceforge.net but there is not ...
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Statistical Software Quality Control References
I'm looking for references about hypothesis testing in software management. For example, we might wonder whether "crunch time" leads to an increase in defect rate - this is a surprisingly difficult ...
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What is logical cohesion, and why is it bad or undesirable?
From the c2wiki page on coupling & cohesion:
Cohesion (interdependency within module) strength/level names : (from
worse to better, high cohesion is good)
Coincidental Cohesion : ...
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Code metrics for .net code [closed]
While the code metrics tool gives a pretty good analysis of the code being analyzed, I was wondering if there was any such benchmark on acceptable standards for the following as well:
Maximum number ...
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Are CK Metrics still considered useful? Is there an open source tool to help?
Chidamber & Kemerer proposed several metrics for object oriented code. Among them, depth of inheritance tree, weighted number of methods, number of member functions, number of children, and ...
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Severity and relation to occurence - priority?
I have been browsing through some webpages related to testing and found one dealing with the metrics of testing. It says:
The severity level of a defect indicates the potential business impact
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What kind of metrics, if any, can be collected from requirements development?
We elicit requirements from our product stakeholders by creating and refining user stories in monthly sprint planning meetings. This includes defining use cases, acceptance criteria, and identifying ...
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Data architecture for event log metrics?
My service has a large ongoing number of user events, and we would like to do things like "count occurrence of event type T since date D."
We are trying to make two basic decisions:
What to store? ...
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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 ...
