How would you measure code “quality” across a large project

Question

I\'m working on a quite large project, a few years in the making, at a pretty large company, and I\'m taking on the task of driving toward better overall code quality.

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Answer 1

Cyclomatic complexity is a decent "quality" metric. I'm sure developers could find a way to "game" it if it were the only metric, though! :)

And then there's the C.R.A.P. metric...

P.S. NDepend has about ten billion metrics, so that might be worth looking at. See also CodeMetrics for Reflector.

D'oh! I just noticed that you already mentioned NDepend.

Number of reported bugs would be interesting to track, too...