CI Feedback & Metrics

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How do you measure?

On the product side, we can log when people are using features

  • on small scale, can interact with (call) the customer


What percentage of builds fail? Tradeoff of build failures, vs frequency of builds ?


Continuous deployment, measuring $/unit of work, can we measure customer-revenue outcomes from how we are committing our code?

defect rate, commit/build rate, what is the time to detect rate?

  • Granular feedback may or may not have as much value, compared to hardware costs and time-to-detection feedback
    • Any builds longer than 10 seconds are not okay

Feedback of code

  • Crap for J
    • Cyclomatic complexity vs. code coverage
  • Sonar
  • Using debt in coding
    • is it okay for taking on debt
    • Even if it is for meeting deadlines?
  • code review process makes a process
  • @JTF: positive correlation between speed and quality
    • That certain teams that put out features faster also put out in high quality.
    • With span of data over several decades
  • Different people work differently, Members of teams don't always approach problems of finishing tasks, in a way that is quality.
    • Mentality needs to such that there is a team ownership of lines of code, and potential bugs.
    • Perception of what is faster many not be the reality of what is faster
      • We might write lines of bad code without refactoring and improving and think we're doing it faster, but are we?
      • comparison to using hotkeys vs. how much time is actually used moving the mouse?
    • (discussion about measuring time of writing tests compared to time saved with tests)
  • Do we need more time to write quality code?
    • Perhaps we need to invest more time with our colleagues, to teach Test Driven Development.
    • Do we always write tests first? Well, we can be happy that people are testing at all.
      • Metric, # of assertions should always go up over time.
        • Lines of code? Sometimes lines of code in fact go down. (which is very good, in fact)
  • Measure # of commits per day
    • Every commit should also contain an assertion
    • Maybe we could do that per 15 minutes
      • Every 15 minutes, a timer goes off. After that time, we have a discussion. Should we commit? If not, should we revert? If not, make sure it's ready after another 15 minutes.

See also: Lean Software Development

What metrics?

  • Static analysis warnings
  • Code compiler warnings
    • e.g. codenarc
    • EDIT by macetw The tool I was trying to think of is [www.coverity.com Coverty,] which monitors NEW warnings, distinct from Existing warnings. Coverty is a non-free product.
    • Build failing if new warnings, or any warnings
    • e.g. copy/paste detection
  • Organizational dysfunction, of when team members are not pulling their weight in quality
    • How do we give visibility to management or to the team

Tool recommendation

  • To monitor wstatic analysis

What are the metrics for risk?

  • Metrics for risk are consistent within a project, but not across projects
    • Cyclomatic complexity may be high for a certain project

See also:

  • @JTF: ??

Associate defects across releases

  • fingerprint defects to releases.

Principals of product development flow reinertsen

"every time you run an assertion, you have a chance to learn something"

  • Metrics should ask questions, not give answers
  • Individuals should want it - it's not really for managers
  • Developers have had discussions about results, make plans accordingly

Tool idea:

  • Developer Karma plugin for Jenkins
  • Tool to identify "most failing" tests

%50 of Flickering tests identify code defects.

Participants

  • Scribe: @macetw
  • @Jtf
  • Emil
  • @EricMinick
  • Others (volunteers)