Todd Olson, 6th Sense CTO, interviewed by Dr. Dobbs Journal
Dr. Dobbs recently interviewed Todd Olson, CTO of 6th Sense Analytics, regarding his thoughts on software development metrics.
"The consolidation of the software-development lifecycle toolset has motivated vendors to expose a rich and comprehensive set of APIs for the purpose of integrating their own tools. This created a powerful opportunity for us to tap into these tools to capture meaningful, API-level events about the execution of the software development process. We don't measure coarse-level units such as keystrokes -- in fact, we don't think that sort of data is meaningful. We look at the discrete events and activities that are taking place -- designing, editing, debugging, testing, commits, etc."
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