One of the things that has surprised me over the years is how infrequently people take advantage of custom code metrics. I say this not from the perspective of a geek with esoteric interest in a subject, wishing other people would share my interest. Rather, I say this from the perspective of a business man, making money, and wondering why I seem to have little competition.
As I’ve mentioned before, a segment of my consulting practice involves strategic code assessments that serve organizations in a number of ways. When I do this, the absolute most important differentiator is my ability to tailor metrics to the client and specific codebases on the fly. Anyone can walk in, install a tool, and say, “yep, your cyclomatic complexity in this class is too high, as evidenced by this tool I installed saying ‘your cyclomatic complexity in this class is too high.’” Not just anyone can come in and identify client-specific idiosyncrasies and back those findings with tangible data.
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