Everyone knows the famous principle edicted by Tom DeMarco: “You can not control what you cannot measure”. Everyone does of course agree with this sentence. Yet many people who work in software engineering – responsible for projects, managers, stakeholders, and even quality consultants – make decisions in terms of budget, schedule and teams without the necessary measures that could enable them to control their projects.
These people know that a code analysis tool could produce these measures, but they do not have a technical background and they think that such a tool is complex to install and to use, so they will reserve its use to ‘specialists’. Continue reading