Recently, I was asked to maintain some old code and test some new code. Both tasks required that I understand the code with which I was working. Most of the time, these jobs are non-trivial due to the ...

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One of the central problems in software engineering is the inherited complexity. Since the software is the result of human creative activities, cognitive informatics plays an important role in ...

Cyclomatic complexity is a quantitative measure of the linearly independent paths in source code that can help you understand the complexity of your program and improve code coverage There are various ...

Among programmers, there has long been a dispute between those who want a language to constrain them and those who want great flexibility. If you have been programming for a while, you'll understand ...

The latest trends in software development from the Computer Weekly Application Developer Network. This is a guest post written for the Computer Weekly Developer Network by Roman Khavronenko in his ...