Software Agility

Indicators & Methodology, Software Health

Definition

Software Agility indicates the easiness of a development team to understand and maintain an application. This index is derived through technology-specific code analysis that searches for the presence of embedded documentation and code readability good practices.

Thresholds

Thresholds used for Software Agility categories:

High (green): value > 71.0
Medium (orange): value >= 56.0
Low (red): value < 56.0

Code Insights

Find below some code insight examples which contribute to the Software Agility index.

Spaces between function name and opening parenthesis cause bugs

Multiple JSP Comments can increase costs

Pure JSP Comments can decrease Costs

Long Lines can decrease Readability

Good declaration Order in JSP can reduce costs

Bad attribute names can increase costs

Bad method names can increase costs

Bad function names can increase costs

Bad class names can increase costs

Bad variable names can increase costs

Short functions and identifiers increase costs

Prefer single quotes over double quotes for strings, in a consistent way

Trailing spaces can increase costs

Missing spaces can increase costs

Extraneous whitespaces increase costs

Alias agreement for imports can reduce costs

Multiple imports on the same line can increase costs

Using “is” for anything but singleton can increase costs

‘Not…is’ syntax can be unreadable

Explicit comparison to singleton can be unreadable

Adaptability Risk