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Software quality reflects how well a software conforms to given requirements (functional and non-functional), how much it shows characteristics like reliability, efficiency, security, maintainability.

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How to estimate the quality of pub.dartlang.org packages?

I started a Dart project and now I need some functionality that is not available in the Dart API Reference. I was advised to use a package from pub.dartlang.org and now I am browsing through the pub. Previous experience with Javascript libraries…
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In C++, can the sum of two squared float be negative?

I have a snippet of code that compute the sum of two squared floats: float a, b, c; // assign some random float to b and c a = b*b+c*c; Can a, the sum of the two squared floats, be negative? The original snippet is inside a function, so a different…
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SQALE SonarQube Rating

I'm using sonar to analyze a set of related projects. And I'm using SQALE Rating to justify the need for a refactoring My question is what is the logic behind SQALE to Technical Debt ratio mapping? Why SQALE A rating is Tech Debt in range from 0%…
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SonarQube PHP Quality Profile differences: PHP CodeSniffer vs Sonar Way

Sonarqube offers different quality profiles for checking php code. We are wondering what the "best" profile would be for a Zend 1 application and what the main differences are. The profiles which are currently available are: All PHP CodeSniffer…
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Information on Microsoft's Software Quality Metrics (.sqm) file format?

i'm using Microsoft's SqmApi.dll library to add telemetry to an application. e.g.: ISQM sqm = new Sqm("ContosoGrobber"); sqm.Increment(FileOpen, 1); sqm.SetIfMax(QueryTime,…
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Looking for Objective Metrics for Software Quality

There are various types of quality that can be measured in software products, e.g. fitness for purpose (e.g. end use), maintainability, efficiency. Some of these are somewhat subjective or domain specific (e.g. good GUI design principles may be…
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How to use Subversion with HelpNDoc

I am writing a documentation for a project that involves multiple developers. We use Subversion (SVN) to work on our code base. I wrote the first draft of the documentation document using HelpNDoc, which I like for the nice tree-view and easy of…
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A few questions about unit tests

Two questions about unit tests. I've been writing unit tests for a while, however they're usually to test classes I already had written. Recently I read an article (mind you an old article) that says you should write unit tests before you begin…
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Best way to explain to someone that software developers need to install tools (mainly build integration), and that end-users don't

I work at a software company where most of the people are afraid to install new tools to increase productivity. They give me excuses like: I don't need to install something else. I can do this myself. etc...many other baseless arguments. In an…
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Preparing unit tests : What's important to keep in mind when working on a software architecture?

Let's say I'm starting a new project, quality is a top priority. I plan on doing extensive unit testing, what's important to keep in mind when I'm working on the architecture to ease and empower further unit testing? edit : I read an article some…
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AMN and math logic notation

I'm not sure this is appropriate for stackoverflow, but I don't know where else to ask. I'm studying the B-Method for proving consistence in requirement specifications, and I have an issue with the logic math notation when specifying the pre…
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Monitoring code metrics in Java over longer time period

Is there some tool to monitor different metrics for a Java project over a longer period of time, preferrably by the data in CVS to establish trends and weak points? This would be a good starting point for continuous code reviews and for maintaining…
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Continuous integration workflow idea

In the software development environment where I work we have a group of developers all working in the same (Java) codebase (currently using SVN). I notice that people want to commit often what they have constructed without 'breaking the build'. So…
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Feature bloat - how much is too much?

I'm a computer science student designing a project and I've started wondering what are good examples or software, or even hardware that are toeing the line between being feature rich with good usable features for regular users and being too…
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Direct Class Coupling (DCC) metrics

I am trying to understand the Direct Class Coupling (DCC). I try to to calculate the DCC metrics for a class diagram but I don't know how the article that I read obtained value 2: Can someone explain me how to calculate it?
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