From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fac41,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidfac41,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,4b06f8f15f01a568 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1108a1,9a0ff0bffdf63657 X-Google-Attributes: gid1108a1,public From: jdege@jdege.visi.com (Jeffrey C. Dege) Subject: Re: Module size (was Re: Software landmines) Date: 1998/09/05 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 388173747 References: <6sh3qn$9p2$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6simjo$jnh$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6sjk3p$4tc$1@hirame.wwa.com> <6skgn4$3gq$1@hirame.wwa.com> <35F02981.B13C875@ac3i.dseg.ti.com> X-Complaints-To: abuse@visi.com X-Trace: ptah.visi.com 905009812 209.98.6.59 (Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:36:52 CDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 10:36:52 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.eiffel,comp.object,comp.software-eng,comp.lang.ada Date: 1998-09-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Sat, 05 Sep 1998 07:00:06 GMT, Patrick Logan wrote: >In comp.object Jeffrey C. Dege wrote: > >: If we were further along in our metrics process, perhaps these questions >: would be reasonable. As it is, this is the first time we've dug into >: our code base in this way. We didn't have _any_ idea what sort of >: distribution was normal. When I saw 900+ one-line methods, and >: 60+ zero-line methods, I very much wanted to figure out why. That >: is, after all, what I'm doing (well, that, and burning some time >: while waiting for a customer to sign-off on a contract.) > >I would suggest that your down time might be better spent reading some >things from Robert Martin's web site. First, the list of OO >principles. Second, the metrics he has devised. Third, everything >else. I did all of that the first week I was idle. I even added his PDF files to our internal developers web page. (I had to add the Law of Demeter to his list of OO Principles, of course.) If I remember his metrics, though, they are primarily quality metrics. My current effort is in sizing metrics, to improve our project estimating. My main inspiration has been Humphrey's PROBE method. -- We can found no scientific discipline, nor a healthy profession on the technical mistakes of the Department of Defense and IBM. -- Edsger Dijkstra