The software industry has a cyclic love-hate relationship with code metrics. At times, metrics appear to be quite helpful and at other times, doubt regarding their efficacy casts a short-lived shadow, ...

Good programmers are hard to find. Worse, qualified candidates can be expensive. Little wonder, then, that software project managers want to be sure they’re getting their money’s worth. They want ...

Visual Studio 2008 introduces new features in each edition. In the coming months, this column will examine these features and demonstrate how you can benefit from them in your development process.

Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...

JArchitect provides valuable analysis and information, but the cost means this is not a casual purchase, if you’re spending your own money and not your company’s. Once you get past “Hello World,” code ...