Measuring Your Code

One of the biggest problems of software projects is that, while the practice of software development is commonly thought of as engineering,it is inherently a creative discipline; hence, many things about it are hard to measure. While simple yardsticks like test coverage and cyclomatic complexity areimportant for code quality, what other metrics can we apply to answer questions about our code?What coding conventions or developmentpractices can we implement to make our code easier to measure?