How Maintainable Is the Firefox Codebase?

Posted by Unknown on Wednesday May 15, 2013 @04:41AM from the self-referential-fox dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A report released this morning looks at the maintainability level of the Firefox codebase through five measures of architectural complexity. It finds that 11% of files in Firefox are highly interconnected, a value that went up significantly following version 3.0 and that making a change to a randomly selected file can, on average, directly impact eight files and indirectly impact over 1,400 files. All the data is made available and the report comes with an interactive Web-based exploratory tool." The complexity exploration tool is pretty neat.

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So? by ShanghaiBill · 2013-05-15 04:56 · Score: 5, Insightful

It finds that 11% of files in Firefox are highly interconnected
Figures like this would be more useful if they were put in context. What is a "normal" level for connectedness? What is the level for the Linux kernel, or for GCC? Compared to other similar sized projects, is 11% good or bad?