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Tag: metrics
Duplicate Lines of Code
Revisiting how we detect and report duplicate lines of code, and creating a plugin metric to report it.
Overly Complex Files
Frustrated by vague code quality metrics? Explore how to translate CBR Insight’s metrics for file complexity, thresholds, and comment to code ratio into equivalent custom Understand metrics to gain a more nuanced understanding of your code’s quality.
Git Plugins for Understand
Cool Git plugins for Understand to access commits, authors, owners, cohesion, coupling, and dates.
Cognitive Complexity Metric Plugin
A detailed technical description of how to calculate cognitive complexity using Understand’s API and why the cognitive complexity metric could be important to you.
Dependency Networks with Understand
A script to calculate and display design structure matrices based on file dependencies—plus lots of cool metrics based on the matrix.
Updated Metrics in Understand 6.4
Abstract: Learn what’s changed with Metrics in Understand 6.4. What happened to metric …!?!? If you don’t see your favorite metric right away, don’t panic. Understand 6.4 made some changes to metrics,…
Metric Plugins
Abstract: Understand 6.4 let’s you create your own metrics. Understand comes with a lot of built-in metrics, like the number of code lines or the McCabe cyclomatic complexity of a function. Not…
Cool Plugins for Code Maintenance
Three plugins provided by our partner, TechMatrix, that can help you identify and visualize code with low maintainability.
Measuring Your Code
Learn about the available metrics in Understand, the ways to explore them, and how they can help you solve problems.