Metrics

New Metric: C.R.A.P.

by Julias Shaw on October 7, 2007

The good folks at Agitar have proposed a new metric, C.R.A.P and an Eclipse plugin crap4j for executing it. C.R.A.P. combines a method’s complexity with its coverage to come up with a single number that can help you determine if somebody will say,“Oh crap!” when they have to work with it.

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Teaser: Breaking the Build in Panopticode 0.2

by Julias Shaw on September 16, 2007

In the last post we learned that Panopticode 0.2 will allow us to create arbitrary reports using a SPARQL SELECT query. Another feature in Panopticode 0.2 is to use a SPARQL ASK query to break the build.

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Teaser: Creating Ad Hoc Reports in Panopticode 0.2

by Julias Shaw on September 12, 2007

Learn how to create custom reports in Panopticode 0.2 that correlate information between multiple metrics using SPARQL queries.

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New Tool: Complexian

by Julias Shaw on March 4, 2007

Marty Andrews has just released version 0.12.0 of Complexian. Complexian is a tool for very quickly measuring the NPATH and CCN metrics of Java code.

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Panopticode 0.1 Is Released

by Julias Shaw on March 2, 2007

Panopticode 0.1 is released. Get it now!

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Metrics Must be Interpreted In Context

by Julias Shaw on February 26, 2007

James Newkirk points out that measuring code coverage is not very interesting by itself. This is an example of my first fundamental rule of metrics, “Rule #1: Metrics Must Be Interpreted In Context.”

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