Crap4j - Quick Demo

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In my experience, organizations of the CMMI Level 1 type (the majority), tend not to act on clear warnings signs, whether automated or human. They prefer to put a lid on bad news.

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The place I'm working for may start to use it. I've already detected that there's some unease at the word "crap". It's going to be very interesting to see whether the use of the tool, and the label it may give to our codebase, is going to kill the adoption of the tool or not..

[karlthepagan]

Very nice demo. Its interesting to immagine what kind of metrics can be layered on top of a TDD discipline to encourage quality beyond simply reaching 100% coverage and all passing tests.

I like your new acronym "change risk anti-pattern" it's cute but direct enough to help my CEO understand the limits of these kind of metrics. ;)

[jtonyrock]

i think the code doesnt matter and people just want to see how it works :) it looks good :)

[albsavoia]

Thanks for the comment. I agree that if you are a user, you care mostly about the software works. But if you are stuck maintaining the code (i.e. a developer instead of a user) the code does matter. Maintaining crappy code is a crappy job :-).

[albsavoia]

Sorry for the crappy video quality (no pun intended) due to YouTube's video compression. Hopefully you get the idea even if you can't see the actual code. I am exploring alternatives that will support higher resolution so you can actually see the code.