• Not so much process, more about the product (code)

• LOC not a good metric (normalize against the language, at least)

• Cyclomatic Complexity (decision points), a little dated (only really whiles and ifs), but still indicative

• Flog: weighting for complexity

• But: we have history!

• Universal truths? Maybe not...

• Queries against git logs

• Social science (article about parole hearings)

• Commits are patterned -- lots around 17:00

• Beware noise

• Can detect refacoring from method lifelines

• Can learn more about you do, things you can act on

http://github.com/michaelfeathers/repodepot-ruby

• complexity from flog

Q: Have you done any analysis to discover root causes for problems?