Un-monitored, the complexity of a code-base increases with its size. Jboss and Struts are perfect examples. However monitoring complexity helps you keep complexity debt under control, or even down to zero. If you publish the last couple of years worth … Continue reading
Ben Hosking writes in Managing Complexity – The aim of Designing Code that: “The most important part of design is managing complexity“ I like the simplicity of that. What happens if you don’t manage complexity. Well, it starts to cost. … Continue reading
Structure101 v2 goes beta today. With it you can walk through the code-base in slices from the class-level, to the package-level and up through the design levels, spotting tangles and seeing how far they have spread. This is a snag … Continue reading
I came across an interesting post from Sriram Narayan on the ThoughtWorks blog about how to use Cyclomatic Complexity effectively. Cyclomatic Complexity (CC) being the number of execution paths through a function or method. Sriram makes a case for measuring … Continue reading