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,…
Tag: 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.
API: Contents vs Value
The API for entities have both contents and values. Natasha explains the difference while fixing a bug.
Useful Script: Export All Metric Values, Not Just Violations
This script exports the Hersteller Initiative Software Metric values into a CSV for every file in your project. You can easily tweak it to do all or any metric you choose.
Just How Complex Is Your Project?
Jordan decides to write a Python script to find out exactly how many unique paths there are through his project.
Assessing Possible Changes in Source Code (a.k.a. My boss asked me to change this code)
Estimating the impact of changing a function in the open-source covid source code.
A visual tour of code complexity
A visual tour of how maintenance risk increases with cyclomatic complexity