Posts in September dAmerica/Chicago 2009

Software metrics (PHP focused) part 2
Monday, 14-September-2009

In part 1 I spoke about lines of code and average of lines per day. Two indexes that are quite naive. Let’s see some better metrics, most of them object oriented programming focused.
Third stop: Tests and code coverage
If you have unit tests you can easily control that nothing vital is broken in each contribution. A […]

Software metrics (PHP focused) part 1
Saturday, 12-September-2009

Managing a software project with various programmers and around 10 contributions per day is a complex thing.
How can we measure the quality of every single contribution?
How can control the work of the programmers?
First stop: Lines of code
The easiest thing to measure in a project is the source lines of code it has. For example, the […]