Alberto Savoia talks shop about C.R.A.P.
According to Alberto Savoia, 
80 percent of developers spend most of their career working on other people's code -- and a depressing percentage of that
code is crappy! In this engaging interview with code quality evangelist Andrew Glover, Savoia reveals the thinking behind
the C.R.A.P. metric, and explains how you can use it, in tandem with the new Crap4j plugin for Eclipse, to evaluate inherited code. Andrew also gets Alberto talking about some of the recent critique of the C.R.A.P. metric, and
how he and co-creator Bob Evans would like to see the metric evolve.
- What do you think of the C.R.A.P. metric? Will you (or have you) run Crap4j on your code? Give us your feedback on the thoughts and ideas raised in this discussion.
- Download the Crap4j plugin for Eclipse
- Learn more about the Change Risk Analysis and Predictions (CRAP) metric.
- Also read "The code C.R.A.P. metric hits the fan -- introducing the crap4j plugin" (Alberto Savoia, Artima Weblogs, October 1, 2007).
- Andrew Glover writes about developer testing tools and frameworks in his series "In Pursuit of Code Quality."
- Stay tuned for more inside views from JavaWorld's Java Technology Insider.
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