On 22.1.2013 13:33, Jiří Stránský wrote:
On 22.1.2013 12:05, Imre Farkas wrote:
Hi,
Yesterday I came across a new service called Code Climate which provides code
metrics based on static analysis of the code. It is only for Ruby and it's free
for opensource projects. I added Conductor and it gave the result back in a
minute. You can check them at:
https://codeclimate.com/github/aeolusproject/conductor
It also has an activity feed which is now empty but as soon as new commits will
be added to Conductor it will be evaluated and will appear in the feed. You can
subscribe to it via RSS or we you can receive updates via email. By doing that
you will receive immediate feedback of your code.
Very cool.
I think it's a pretty awesome service and I would like to take one step
further. Ideally, we could use this site with the intent to improve our code
quality. Currently, a huge part of our business logic is concentrated in a few
classes. It's already causing headaches for us and it will just get worse.
Martin also wrote about the need to refactor certain parts of our codebase [1],
with which I completely agree.
To handle this issue we could allocate a small portion of every sprint from now
on to refactor the worst part of Conductor. Using Code Climate, we can identify
hot spots easily (not that it would be hard on our own) and we will receive
instant feedback on our effort.
+1. I think refactorings could be normal sprint tasks. Imho having code in a
good shape is vital for keeping projects maintainable.
Actually, yesterday I reported first "needs refactoring" issue against CLI and I hope we
can track such issues with a github issue label "refactoring", to find them easily.
J.
Haha so I just added thor-cli to CodeClimate and it marked exactly the same
issue as I found yesterday. Not bad :)
J.
