The Curmudgeoclast » java http://techblog.daveastels.com This sucks, wouldn't it be cool if...? Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:38:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Cool Tool http://techblog.daveastels.com/2008/05/14/cool-tool/ http://techblog.daveastels.com/2008/05/14/cool-tool/#comments Wed, 14 May 2008 13:17:01 +0000 dastels http://techblog.daveastels.com/?p=12 A friend of mine, Misko Hevery, has written a very cool opensource tool for analyzing Java projects and scoring them in terms of how testable they are. His plans are to have it point out what’s wrong, and make suggestions as to what you can do to improve the situation.

Check it out: Testability Explorer

Well worth looking at.

]]> http://techblog.daveastels.com/2008/05/14/cool-tool/feed/ 0 A Tale of two codebases http://techblog.daveastels.com/2006/09/01/a-tale-of-two-codebases/ http://techblog.daveastels.com/2006/09/01/a-tale-of-two-codebases/#comments Fri, 01 Sep 2006 09:10:00 +0000 dastels http://techblog.daveastels.com/?p=72 I just finished working on notes for a Java5/jUnit4/TDD tutorial. This is a version of a Ruby/rSpec/BDD tutorial that I recently wrote. The app is a simple “guess the secret code” game. The contexts of the two are the same other than where language differences make themselves known. Primarily this is the in code. So, two codebases, same set of tests/specs, same functionallity.. 100% same. Both written by me… which, IMO, means pretty clean, tight code.

I’ll be looking over the code in the next few days, and probably blogging anything interesting that I find. But I’ll start off with this comparison… just how much difference is there in the amount of code?

 

 

 

 

  Ruby Java % difference
Lines 396 551 39%
Characters 11479 16641 45%

So, in Java there is almost 50% more code. In this case.. a simple app… that’s only about 5000 characters… but what about a bigger app? That will add up fast. I can’t help but wonder if that comparison will be linear with the size of the app. Somehow I doubt it.

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