Tick-the-Code Metrics

Tick-the-Code checkers

Country		Checker Count
	Belgium	4
	Finland	610
	France	61
	Germany	58
	Russia	10
	Sweden	10
	USA	93
Total		846

Number of held Tick-the-Code sessions:

Tick-the-Code Findings

Here's an experiment conducted on 78 professional software developers. Before learning Tick-the-Code their ability to find items in source code was measured (in 15 minutes) and then extrapolated (to an hour). Many didn't believe they would have reached the extrapolated number with just more time. Then they were taught how to tick and given an hour to tick the exact same source code. Almost all participants found more than their extrapolated count would have allowed! The average improvement was 5-fold!

Figure 1. shows both the extrapolated Before curve and the measured performance After learning Tick-the-Code. The huge improvement points to great potential in software developers. With the right kind of guidance, they could inspect their code so much better.

Figure 1. The Before and After Graph. Each checker has two data points: one on the blue spiky line and one on the violet line. You can see how much more items almost everyone found after being taught Tick-the-Code. The checker performances have been ranked according to their 'Before' result (which explains the monotonically increasing violet line).