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How to Measure Code Quality
I was part of a group at Google called the Code Health Intergroup. People would come to us because we were the code quality people and they would say, how do you measure it? And mostly we would tell them, don't, don't do that. It sort of ends up making you narrowly focused on some of the wrong things. A lot of engineering issues ultimately stem from some factor of code health or code quality in the long term. That's what I eventually came to, and all of this sounds very simple. The thing that I'm about to tell you was revelatory, like a revelation to me and every other person in the room to whom I said it to the first