Week 14 - 15 Acceptance criteria

Total count of lines in a codebase

• Line of Codes (LOC)

• Cyclomatic complexity

• Velocity

Total count of lines in a codebase

• Walk-throughs

• Technical reviews

• Line of codes

• Software Inspections

Formal inspections aiming to uncover and rectify defects within a work product

• Walk-throughs

• Technical reviews

• Line of codes

• Software Inspections

How many defects per 1000 lines of code exist in the software product?

• QUESTION

• METRIC

• GOAL

Improving Product Quality

• QUESTION

• METRIC

• GOAL

The Goal, Question, Metric paradigm suggests that:

• The right metric will help answer questions about a clearly defined goal

• Questions can be good indicators of software feature

• Metrics do not need planning before use.

• Questions must be used to find the goals of a metric

Gabriela is working on a piece of software that will help a concert venue sell tickets. The clients would like to provide customers with free shipping of tickets if they spent over $250. Gabriela will use this number in her code to change shipping to $0. -- if the number is under $250, then the customer has to pay for shipping. The number of $250 is an example of:

• a measure

• a metric

• an indicator

• a goal

Putri is working with a development team which has choses to use the metric lines of code (LOC). Putri knows this is an ineffective metric. What reasons could Putri present his manager to illustrate this? Choose three that apply.

• Different programming languages can influence the lines of code, even for the same feature

• It may encourage developers to write more lines of code than they would otherwise to seem more productive
  

• The number of lines of code it takes to create a feature is not related to the quality of that feature.

• It takes too much time to count all the lines of code created by the project

The popular uptime metric measures in percentages how long a product is "up" and available to users. What requirement does this measure?

• maintainablity

• performance

• product success

• reliability

Examples of desirable properties of metrics include (Choose two that apply):

• simple and computable

• reduces hours

• stakeholders approve of it

• consistent in the use of units and dimensions