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From: James Rogers <jrogers@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com>
Subject: Re: Tools
Date: 1996/12/17
Date: 1996-12-17T00:00:00+00:00	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <32B6D316.2F1C@velveeta.apdev.cs.mci.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 5942ok$p9s@mill.gdls.com


Art Schwarz wrote: 
>  I'm interested in reading articles which describe what the complexity metric
>  for Ada is; what constructs are used and supported. the weight each has and
>  how the construct participates in control flow graph formation. I am also
>  interested in any freeware, shareware, commercialware which supports the return
>  of the complexity metric of a module along with the control-flow graph used to
>  form the complexity metric.

I assume this means that you will not be using any tagged types.  Run-time
dispatching makes Cyclomatic Complexity calculations very difficult.  There
is no static analysis which can tell which subprogram will be called via
dynamic dispatching.

-- 
Jim Rogers
*************************************************************
Team Ada




  reply	other threads:[~1996-12-17  0:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1996-12-16  0:00 Tools Art Schwarz
1996-12-17  0:00 ` James Rogers [this message]
1996-12-18  0:00   ` Tools Robert Dewar
1996-12-18  0:00     ` Tools James S. Rogers
1996-12-19  0:00   ` Tools Art Schwarz
1996-12-19  0:00   ` Tools Robert A Duff
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