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by artumi-richard
4670 days ago
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The book "Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Making-Software-Really-Works-Believe...) has a section on this. Chapter 8 "Beyond lines of Code: Do we need more complexity metrics?" by Israel Herraiz and Ahmed E Hassan. Their short answer is that, in the case they looked at, all the suggested metrics correlated with LOC, so you may as well use LOC as it's so easy to measure. IIRC they believe it's only good to compare LOC between different employees if they are doing pretty much the exact same task however, but since LOC is correlated with code complexity, there is some measure there. I recommend the book, as really focusing on the science of computer science. |
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