March 22, 2026By Digital Ullu

How do you actually measure ‘code quality’?

Code coverage? Cyclomatic complexity? Pull request review time? I have used all of these. None of them capture the thing I actually care about: can a new engineer understand and safely modify this code in six months? I am still looking for a metric that gets close.

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