Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!tivoli!alan From: alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Counting semicolons (was: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program) Message-ID: <601@tivoli.UUCP> Date: 18 Apr 91 17:46:58 GMT References: <36650004@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> Reply-To: alan@tivoli.UUCP (Alan R. Weiss) Organization: Tivoli Systems Inc., Austin, TX Lines: 42 In article <36650004@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> daves@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dave Straker) writes: >On measuring complexity... > >Before you measure anything, you should ask: Why am I doing this? >What am I going to do with the information? What questions will >it help answer? What decisions will it help me make? > >Thus, for example, you might be measuring complexity in order >to find defect-prone modules which you might inspect. > >Note the word 'help' in the above questions. Metrics don't make >decisions for you. Thus, you wouldn't just blindly inspect all >modules with a McCabe factor of >10, but you would look at them, >and ask: Does this look like inspection would help? The final >decision is human. > >Dave Straker Pinewood Information Systems Division (PWD not PISD) >[8-{) HPDESK: David Straker/HP1600/01 > Unix: daves@hpopd.pwd.hp.com YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! YESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYESYES!! Thank you. _______________________________________________________________________ Alan R. Weiss TIVOLI Systems, Inc. E-mail: alan@tivoli.com 6034 West Courtyard Drive, E-mail: alan@whitney.tivoli.com Suite 210 Voice : (512) 794-9070 Austin, Texas USA 78730 Fax : (512) 794-0623 _______________________________________________________________________