December 2006
Intermediate to advanced
1312 pages
35h 17m
English
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9.2 Checking Your Source Code’s Complexity with SourceMonitor
Adding a cyclomatic complexity check to your development process can quickly point you to potentially troublesome areas of your code base. SourceMonitor, written by James Wanner of Campwood Software, is a simple tool that gathers cyclomatic complexity statistics and other metrics for many languages, including C#, C++, C, Java, Delphi, Visual Basic (classic only), and even HTML. SourceMonitor also reports on 11 other useful metrics, including total lines in code files, number of classes, average number of methods per class, and statements per method. (See SourceMonitor’s documentation for a full listing and explanation of the metrics covered by the tool.)
One of SourceMonitor’s greatest features is its tracking of code changes through successive passes. Create a project in SourceMonitor containing all your source code and run an analysis pass on that project to create statistics. This results in a baseline of metrics against which you can measure each subsequent analysis pass, to monitor the overall complexity of your project. This will help you better understand your complexity versus features curve as you add functionality to your software.
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Version covered | 2.0.4.7 |
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