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Mining Rails
- Not so much process, more about the product (code)
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LOC not a good metric (normalize against the language, at least)
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Cyclomatic Complexity (decision points), a little dated (only really whiles and ifs), but still indicative
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Flog: weighting for complexity
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But: we have history!
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Universal truths? Maybe not...
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Queries against git logs
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Social science (article about parole hearings)
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Commits are patterned -- lots around 17:00
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Beware noise
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Can detect refacoring from method lifelines
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Can learn more about you do, things you can act on
http://github.com/michaelfeathers/repodepot-ruby
- complexity from flog
Q: Have you done any analysis to discover root causes for problems?
