On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 09:06:08PM +0200, Davide Prina wrote: > in DDTSS I see: > > "about what constitutes high or low quality products with an > automated analysis tool." > > but these software metrics tools don't measure product quality, but > they (try to) measure (or estimate) the development effort and so > the applications money costs. > > So I think it must be: > > "about what constitutes high or low development effort products with an > automated analysis tool."
I'd be happy to change the description, but this proposed new one is misleading too. The raw LOC count is a proxy for development effort, true. But CCCC also includes a variety of measurements of flow-control complexity, comment density, fan-in/fan-out of modules, and so on. They may not be accurate quality checks, but they certainly aren't measures of development effort either. Do you have an alternative suggestion? -- Colin Watson [[email protected]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
