Code Evolution
With so many software tools and utilities that will
provide line of code metrics, why would anyone purchase
a tool? The answer for CodeMeasure is easy and should
help you decide if it is right for you and your organization.
The two reasons to select CodeMeasure are: consistency
of results and language independence.
And now the free trial version of CodeMeasure allows
you to run an analysis for free. You can view, capture,
and print the CLOC graph. You'll need to purchase a
license to save the results to a spreadsheet file.
Consistency of Results
An important part of taking software development metrics
is consistency. The first step toward consistency when
measuring code is to measure the same way every time.
CodeMeasure is uniquely designed to measure the evolution
of software across multiple versions and not just a
simple comparison of two versions that is typical. Running
all your comparisons at the same time ensures you get
a consistent measurement across versions without taking
valuable engineering time building an environment to
consistently measure 2 versions at a time and compiling
results. Another unique advantage CodeMeasure offers,
results from its language independence, allowing the
same tool to measure Java development, PHP scripting,
C, C++, or any line-based language and delivering consistent
metrics on all your language-based development projects.
Language Independence
Language independence seems counter intuitive to the
concept of accurately measuring software evolution because
everyone knows that all lines of code aren't created
equal. Similarly, all languages aren't the same, so
the effort required for a line of PHP is different than
the effort for a line of C++. The problem isn't with
the metric, but with the analysis. If information on
changed lines of code for the evolution of the Apache
server (developed in C++) is compared with the same
changed lines of code information for Ptolemy (developed
in Java) does it tell me which language is better? Of
course not, applying the same metric to two unrelated
things doesn't lead to an accurate conclusion. The bottom
line is having a standard set of metrics helps provide
context and makes it easier to present an understandable
analysis of development progress.
Download CodeMeasure here.
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