> So you analyse each of the source files to determine which other
> source files they depend on. This seems to be a Java-centric
> analysis in that it relies on the source files containing a class
> each? Is that correct? Ie would this be able to analyse source
> files that contain many classe
On 5 Jun 2006, at 10:07, Hayden Melton wrote:
Ant-1.6.5 there are 117 .java files involved in a big dependency
cycle.
That is the height of the biggest red bar. The yellow bars show the
distribution of another metric I have devised CRSS which aims to
quantify how
"flat" the structure of a
> Is your analysis in any way similar to how PMD defines it's cyclic
> complexity metric? I always thought that PMD did a good job of
> warning developers of potentially 'smelly' code.
No, it has nothing to do with McCabe's cyclomatic complexity, which basically
tries to quantify the complexity
On 3 Jun 2006, at 13:16, Hayden Melton wrote:
http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~hayden/corpus.htm
If you're too busy to read my research page, and want to use these
graphs to tell a "good" from "bad" structure: big red bars are bad.
Love that! Still not sure how to interpret the graphs,
Hi all,
I am a PhD student at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. As part of my
research I have performed an empirical study on a large corpus of open-source
Java software. Several of the applications in the corpus (Ant, Tomcat, JMeter,
POI) are from the Apache Software Foundation. If you are
