While this information can be useful to software developers to help them optimize their own performance, it will likely prove detrimental to provide these metrics to managerial or production supervisors, as they typically only choose in intensifying the workload to improve efficiency. I would like to see more people tested and less emphasis on productivity, and more emphasis on how we can use this data to improve the experience of coding for the programmer. That would probably result in better code more readily than objectifying the software engineers through the use of data that might not speak to the experience of the vast majority of programmers.
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While this information can be useful to software developers to help them optimize their own performance, it will likely prove detrimental to provide these metrics to managerial or production supervisors, as they typically only choose in intensifying the workload to improve efficiency. I would like to see more people tested and less emphasis on productivity, and more emphasis on how we can use this data to improve the experience of coding for the programmer. That would probably result in better code more readily than objectifying the software engineers through the use of data that might not speak to the experience of the vast majority of programmers.