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From: rlandsma@bbn.com (Rick Landsman)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: WANTED: "C" code line counter program
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Date: 4 Apr 91 18:01:13 GMT
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I have mentioned this before but for those that missed it, there is a
"C" package called metrics in volume 20 of the comp.sources.unix
archive available via anonymous ftp from uunet.uu.net that generates
both McCabe and Halstead metrics from "C" files. We have found it
useful as a way to determine POTENTIAL software functions for
re-design to reduce ERROR PRONENESS :-) due to overly complex control
and syntactical complexity. This is one of the tools we use for defect
reduction by targetting error prone modules.

There is documentation included with the package that discusses some
of the Halstead volume and other metrics used by the author.

Rick Landsman
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