[Moose-dev] Re: More metrics in Moose?

Hi holger The castSoftware company http://www.castsoftware.com/? Can you tell us more? Because another company told me that their metrics were fuzzy too :) >> I know them, that's cool! >> I have a simple question: Do you have more analysis methods and >> metrics that are not yet published with Moose? > You can find a pre-release of (some of) my current work here > http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~akuhn/d/Kuhn-2008-WCRE-SoftwareMap.pdf >> And how about correctness of the measured values? The class comment >> states: "Right now only Number of MessageSends is computed in a >> correct manner." On the first glance, I cannot see which of the >> measured values could be wrong. Any hint on inappropriate >> computation or improvement would be appreciated. The only thing I >> see a bit confusing is the computation of two McCabe numbers >> #cyclomaticNumber and #cyclomaticNumber2. Unfortunately, the class >> comment does not tell enough. > Correctness of measured values is a big issue. The correctness of the > numbers that Moose produces is unknown. Even such simple measurements > as the number of classes or method invocations might be wrong! I think that adrian is a bit simplifying too much. What is the language that you want to analyse? For Smalltalk, since the langage is dynamically typed nobody on earth can be precise when talking about invocations! Now for the number of classes I think that this is correct. Now if you take any "professional" tools you have to ask yourself This is not only that. With certain program you do no have statically the information. Now for example for C++ we do not have pointer analysis tools. Moose is not that. I do not see how this would really help. If you do not have the pointer analysis or call-flow analysis the range error can be as meaningless than certain metrics. Holger we use moose for a lot of projects and we did not notice problems. For basic metrics Moose is correct. Now of course we may have different definition but as with any non trivail measuring tools we have check and calibrate it first