Is Java Full of 'CRAP'? | Linux Today

Is Java Full of ‘CRAP’?

Written By
SMK
Sean Michael Kerner
Oct 4, 2007

“At one point or another, every developer has looked at a piece
of code and said aloud (or to themselves), ‘This is crap.’ Until
now, however, the definition of what actually constitutes bad code
has not been an exact science with a proper formula or
analytics.

“Thanks to the efforts of Alberto Savoia, founder and CTO of
Agitar Software, there is now a statistical measure to monitor Java
code. Called crap4j, CRAP is an acronym for Change Risk Analyzer
and Predictor…”

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Sean Michael Kerner

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