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, ...

Code quality refers to code's long-term usefulness and maintainability. If you can reuse a unit of code in multiple modules and easily maintain the code, it lessens developers' and testers' work for ...

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 ...

Code is important — and not only to developers. Today, every business leader needs to care about code. Customers interact with you through your software, and every business’s software is made of code.

Technologies mentioned in this article include the Entity Framework, ADO.NET, VB.NET, and C#. Q I'd like to use the Code Metrics of Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) to explain to management the degree ...

While the use of genAI tools for software development tools is soaring, flying under the radar are issues with code quality, security, and reuse. Generative AI-assisted coding allows developers to ...