Definitive standard: http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg (SFW)
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Measuring the quality of code
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Originally posted by NotAllThere View PostDefinitive standard: http://www.osnews.com/images/comics/wtfm.jpg (SFW)
In my BillG review meeting, the whole reporting hierarchy was there, along with their cousins, sisters, and aunts, and a person who came along from my team whose whole job during the meeting was to keep an accurate count of how many times Bill said the F word. The lower the f***-count, the better.
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Originally posted by minestrone View PostIs there any point in writing good code? Nobody else does it, why should I.
New developments, I write good code. When maintaining code that's well written, I write good code. After all, the next person along to maintain it may be me again.
When maintaining code that's badly written, I really can't be to make the effort.Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!Comment
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You cannot polish tulip as they say. I have to admit I have not seen a well written bit of software for years. Some of the stuff I see is so bad i'm surprised the writers can actually get it to compile.Comment
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Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostI am sure in Japan in late eighties that coders wwre paid by line of code? Or did I imagine it?
I knew one team whose manager had decided that he could measure their performance by the number of bugs fixed per month. Towards the end of the month, they would enter a load of bug reports describing various manifestations of a single bug for which they had a fix. Then they'd mark all those bugs as duplicates of the original bug, fix that, and hey presto! two dozen bugs showed up as "Fixed" on the monthly reportComment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostLOC has been used as a metric by idiotic managers. I don't think anybody is stupid enough to do that anymore, but I wouldn't be too surprised.
I knew one team whose manager had decided that he could measure their performance by the number of bugs fixed per month. Towards the end of the month, they would enter a load of bug reports describing various manifestations of a single bug for which they had a fix. Then they'd mark all those bugs as duplicates of the original bug, fix that, and hey presto! two dozen bugs showed up as "Fixed" on the monthly report
REminds me of a story I heard from Digital - coder fixed a bug and introduced 4 other bugs while doing it - patched them all. Then got pulled into Manager's office and congratulated for solving 5 bugs in 1 day!Comment
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Originally posted by NickFitz View PostLOC has been used as a metric by idiotic managers. I don't think anybody is stupid enough to do that anymore, but I wouldn't be too surprised.
System.out.println( ";;;;;;;;;;;;;;;" ) ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
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int a = 0 ;
int b = 0 ;
int c = 0 ;
int d = 0 ;
then the next month all of the lines would be deleted and you would claim that you were refactoring dodgy code.Comment
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