Statische Analyse von Java-Anwendungen — Eignen sich Lines-of-Code-Metrik und Halstead-Länge?

Abstract

Many of the recently developed software systems are implemented in Java. For these systems, activities presently are mainly related to software development tasks rather than to dedicated software maintenance tasks. For these Java systems, therefore, experimental confirmation of established metrics for measuring code quantities that are related to software maintenance is not available. This also includes very basic size measures such as the LOC metric and the Halstead length. In this article, the application of these metrics for Java systems as well as some of the associated difficulties are outlined. The presented results are based on experimental data and include empirical correlations between the basic size metrics as well as newly derived scaling laws which are suitable for maintenance related software measurement.