Comparative Source Code Quality

The Do Diligence® suite of source metrics analysis tools produces nearly 40 metrics in six major categories.  

• Coding Practices
• Code Structure
• Cloned Code
• Understandability
• Completeness
• Complexity

These objective metrics address the following key software attributes: coding style, design, complexity, maintainability, and maturity.  

Individual language metrics are normalized to the size of the code base, then compared to the Do Diligence® comparative database to produce ratings.  Individual metric ratings are summarized by metric category.  Then ratings for all categories are summarized to produce a consolidated rating for each software language being evaluated.  

The Do Diligence® rating scale is 1 to 5, with 1 being poor, 3 average, and 5 outstanding.  

Language, category, and individual metric ratings of below average or worse are considered code debt that should be remediated.