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From: jimr@newbridge.com (Jim Roche)
Subject: Extracting SCCS Metrics
Message-ID: <1991Apr23.134816.20475@newbridge.com>
Followup-To: jimr@newbridge.com
Summary: Want code metrics from SCCS files.
Keywords: SCCS, metrics
Sender: jimr@newbridge.com (Jim Roche)
Organization: Newbridge Networks Corp.
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1991 13:48:16 GMT

I want to extract metrics from the SCCS directory for a largish
(250KLOC) Unix project.  Some of the things I would like to get are:
   - number of lines changed between two dates 
   - number of lines changed between two releases
   - above for entire project, subprojects (file subset), files
   - etc. (you can't manage what you can't measure)

I would like to count uncommented lines of code or statements (I've
got a tool to do that already) instead of the numbers that sccs prs
gives me.  I'd also like to extract some of the metrics on a regular
basis (e.g. using crontab).

Does anyone have tools that do this sort of stuff, or know where they
are available?  Please mail me (jimr@newbridge.com) and I will
summarize.  TIA (Thanks In Advance).

P.S.  Lets not resurrect the "lines of code is a useless metric"
      argument :-)
-- 
Jim Roche (jimr@newbridge.com), Newbridge Networks  (613) 591-3600