The software industry has a cyclic love-hate relationship with code metrics. At times, metrics appear to be quite helpful and at other times, doubt regarding their efficacy casts a short-lived shadow, ...

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Visual Studio 2008 introduces new features in each edition. In the coming months, this column will examine these features and demonstrate how you can benefit from them in your development process.

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Code is important — and not only to developers. Today, every business leader needs to care about code. Customers interact with you through your software, and every business’s software is made of code.

Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...

Good programmers are hard to find. Worse, qualified candidates can be expensive. Little wonder, then, that software project managers want to be sure they’re getting their money’s worth. They want ...

Code smells are not software defects but rather indicators of suboptimal design choices that can adversely impact software quality attributes, such as maintainability, over time 1,2. These smells can ...

Code Climate, the engineering management platform, is unveiling new DORA metrics, built for accuracy, now integrated within the enterprise’s Velocity Analytics module. Engineering teams will have ...