Architecture reviews often only consider the structure of the software. However, it is much more efficient and effective to ...

Abstract: Context: Code understandability is crucial for developers, who continually modify the code to achieve changing business needs over time. Low understandability is associated with a ...

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It combines method cyclomatic complexity with JaCoCo method coverage and reports CRAP scores. The toolkit resolves Maven and Gradle modules natively, including standard multi-module layouts, and ...

Measures Net Complexity Score (NCS) — whether your codebase is an asset or liability to future development. CI-ready, git-aware, multi-language, built for real engineering teams. NCS = (w_cog * ...

Abstract: Software developers strive to build high-performance and quality software with a very high degree of coherence among its components, simplified structure, and reduced complexity. A ...

Code is hardly ever developed from scratch. Rather, new code typically needs to integrate with existing code and is dependent upon existing libraries. Two recent studies found that developers spend, ...