It’s not about lines of code. As Steve Mcconnell and Bob Martin say (two pretty good references on coding best practices), a method should do one thing and only one thing. However many lines of code it takes to do that one thing is how many lines it should have. If that “one thing” can … Read more
I see this floating around and use it myself: find . “(” -name “*.m” -or -name “*.mm” -or -name “*.cpp” -or -name “*.swift” “)” -print0 | xargs -0 wc -l
The answers in this thread are kind of odd as they speak of: “the team”, like “the one and only beneficiary” of those said metrics; “the metrics”, like they mean anything in themselves. 1/ Metrics is not for one population, but for three: developers: they are concerned with instantaneous static code metrics regarding static analysis … Read more
Just use Analyze | Inspect Code with appropriate inspection enabled (Unused declaration under Declaration redundancy group). Using IntelliJ 11 CE you can now “Analyze | Run Inspection by Name … | Unused declaration”
This prose by Alberto Savoia answers precisely that question (in a nicely entertaining manner at that!): http://www.artima.com/forums/flat.jsp?forum=106&thread=204677 Testivus On Test Coverage Early one morning, a programmer asked the great master: “I am ready to write some unit tests. What code coverage should I aim for?” The great master replied: “Don’t worry about coverage, just write … Read more