Patent ID: 8776007

Claim:
A method for assessing software code development, the method comprising: calculating, by a processing device, a first cost per unit of processed code metric using a first quantity of processed code during a time period attributable to a first developer of a plurality of developers and a first cost to develop the quantity of code during the time period attributable to the first developer; calculating, by the processing device, a first quality scaling factor using first quality measurements for the first quantity of processed code, wherein the first quality measurements include, for the first quantity of processed code, at least one of a code quality index weighted by a test coverage percentage for a portion of code underlying the first quantity of processed code during the time period and a code quality index improvement weighted by a test coverage percentage improvement for a portion of code underlying the first quantity of the processed code between a current time and prior time periods; and scaling, by the processing device, the first cost per unit of processed code metric by the first quality scaling factor to provide a first individual cost of development index for the first developer.