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Is there something wrong with how we’re doing version control?

I work with a team of programmers as the business analyst. We just released version 2.0 of our product and are working on the next version to be released in 3 months (it’s an internal software product). Unfortunately version 2.0 has some issues that they have had to fix and we’re going to deploy those fixes in a couple weeks. The problem is that we also don’t want to deploy the changes that are still being worked on and are not slated to be released for another 3 months.

Practices for navigating and changing “long” code files?

Many a times I have to deal with code files which are quite long – about 5 screen pages at the minimum. Almost always there is something towards the top/bottom that I need to refer when I’m at the bottom/top (respectively). It’s a mammoth overhead to constantly scroll back-n-forth between the file parts.

Are CK Metrics still considered useful? Is there an open source tool to help?

Chidamber & Kemerer proposed several metrics for object oriented code. Among them, depth of inheritance tree, weighted number of methods, number of member functions, number of children, and coupling between objects. Using a base of code, they tried to correlated these metrics to the defect density and maintenance effort using covariant analysis.