Very interesting. This reminds me a lot of the CRAP metric - a combination of cyclomatic complexity and code coverage.

It would be intersting to combine your «attention» metric with CRAP.

- saw this other post on your blog

- https://boyter.org/2010/08/mysql-backups-done-easily/

- is an sqldump actually a backup?

Congratulations on the release boyter! scc has been a really useful tool for probing projects. Looking forward to the new features.

Thanks for developing scc!

Regarding LOCOMO I have a fork that calculates an estimate based on # of commits * price per task according to Artificial Analysis benchmarks for a given model, and includes a simple overhead multiplier to pad out the estimate.