Agreed.
Personally I like Sonar (http://www.sonarsource.org/) which gives a
more holistic view of things.
Although I'm guessing your manager can still read stupid things into it...
Richard.
On Wed, Aug 29, 2012 at 9:28 PM, Stephen Connolly
<stephen.alan.conno...@gmail.com> wrote:
> ASIDE:
>
> Your manager is an idiot.
>
> The most productive programmer may well be the one removing the most code
> each day/week/month
>
> The number of bugs is a function of the number of lines of code, therefore
> the more lines of code you write the more bugs you write and the harder it
> is.
>
> This is a dangerous road for the manager to go down...
>
> Once he/she starts down this road you will have developers committing
> changes
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>
>
> with
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> lots
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>
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> of
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>
> padding
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> whitespace
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> "to
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>
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>
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> make
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>
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>
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> the
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>
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> code
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>
>
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> easier
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> to
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> read"
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>
> So the next request you will have to respond to from your manager is to
> count the "non-blank" lines of code...
>
> /*
> *
> * Comments are great for making code more readable.
> *
> *
> * No body has ever been shot for putting comments into code to help the
> people maintain the code
> *
> *
> * Though if you have seen some of the comments I have, perhaps some should
> have been
> *
> */
>
> So expect about 1 performance review cycle later to be asked to filter out
> comments....
>
> private static void rainyDayMethod() {
> int foo=0;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> foo++;
> }
>
> Add that to any class you feel like and... presto chango... your manager now
> will be asking for you to filter out "dead code" and "unused
> methods/classes"
>
> This metric is far far far too easy to game.
>
> Ask your manager to reconsider.
>
> On 29 August 2012 09:48, fried noodle <hutieu...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Are there any plugins for Jenkins to show a report about the lines of code
>> commited by each developer in a particular period (days, weeks, months)? My
>> manager wants that data to keep track of team's productivity.
>>
>> Many thanks in advance.
>>
>> Tai
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