How would you measure code “quality” across a large project

Question

I\'m working on a quite large project, a few years in the making, at a pretty large company, and I\'m taking on the task of driving toward better overall code quality.

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Answer 1

If your taking on the task of driving toward better overall code quality. You might take a look at:

• How many open issues do you currently have and how long do they take to resolve?
• What process to you have in place to gather requirements?
• Does your staff follow best practices?
• Do you have sop's defined to describing your companies programming methodology.

When you have a number of developers involved in a large project everyone has their way of programming. Each style of programming solve the problem but some answers may be less efficient than others.

How do you utlize you staff when attacking a new feature or fixing the exist code. Having developers work in teams following programming sop's forces everyone to be a better code.

When your people code more efficiently following rule you development time should get quicker.

You can get all the metrics you want but I say first you have to see how things are being done:

What are you development practices?

Without know how things are currently being done you can get all the metrics you want but you'll never see any improvemenet.