From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-08 08:00:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB1B06F.C1D68C14@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SLOC-wars References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 09:59:59 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1018278015 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:00:15 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:00:15 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22224 Date: 2002-04-08T09:59:59-05:00 List-Id: > Halstead may have defined a number of metrics, but the one that seemed to be > discussed here was one for measuring volume of source code. I don't recall > the definition (someone help here?) but it had to do with looking at the > operators and the identifiers in a body of source and coming up with a > number that tried to reflect the semantic content. Halstead defined all sorts of inter-related metrics. A tool called Logiscope from a company called VeriLog (no connection with the HDL of the same name) could parse Ada and give all those metrics and those of McCabe and a couple of other folks. I think it was Halstead because I read his book and not the others (but might have been one of the other guys quoted in the Logiscope docs) who "showed" mathematically that all the metrics could boil down to making accurate estimates for a module SOLELY BY THE PARAMETER PROFILE. I find that hard to believe! -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau