Philip Brown <[email protected]> writes: > How do you measure the "quality" of a programmer's work? > At one point, IBM said, "We'll measure it based on KLOC". > Epic Fail. > > After 40 years, there is still no uniform "metric" for that sort of > thing. Nor is it possible to uniformly create one. > Some kinds of quality are simply not possible to reduce to "metrics".
LOC is the beginning of effort measure. Not really a failure except when used as a silver bullet. Quality measure starts when you assess cyclomatic complexity, function point, regression, &c. But that is CS 101... -- Peter _______________________________________________ maintainers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.opencsw.org/mailman/listinfo/maintainers .:: This mailing list's archive is public. ::.
