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What is Clean Code?
If you’ve followed us for a while, you most likely noticed that we changed the way we describe what we do: from “code quality” to “continuous code inspection,” then “code quality and code security”… to Clean Code.
But what is Clean Code, and what does it encompass?
What makes Checkstyle, PMD, Findbugs and Macker complementary ?
There is often some misunderstanding when people talk about coding rules engines. Everyone tries to take position in favor of his preferred tool and does his best to explain what are the weaknesses of the other ones.
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Discussing Cyclomatic Complexity
Googling on Cyclomatic Complexity (CC), gives some interesting results... Among those results, you'll find the two following definitions :
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Is 80% of code coverage any good ?
When talking about source code quality, there are always voices to tell you that metrics mean nothing and that plenty of projects have great metrics and poor quality! Let's look at one particular metric: the code coverage by unit tests.
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