Tracking code complexity in the project?

[Thomas Sødring]

I love when people analyse this kinda stuff, but I don't know how to
interpret these results. But yes, let's try to measure complexity!


On 02/08/2017 08:05 AM, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote:
> Hi.  I've been interested in trying to track code complexity in one of
> my projects for some time now, and wonder if it would be interesting to
> do this for Nikita?
>
> I'm not sure which tools is best for this, but came across
> <URL: https://sourceforge.net/projects/metrixplusplus/ > which is able
> to measure the complexity of Java, C, C++ and C#.  As my projects these
> days normally involve python, shell, perl and ruby, I have been missing
> a project to measure.:)
>
> Perhaps we should run it regularly on the Nikita code base and keep an
> eye on the trend?  This is the output from 'metrix++.py view' on the
> current master branch:
>
> ./:: info: Overall metrics for 'std.code.lines:code' metric
>         Average        : 7.53810623557
>         Minimum        : 1
>         Maximum        : 323
>         Total          : 19584.0
>         Distribution   : 2598 regions in total (including 0 suppressed)
>           Metric value : Ratio : R-sum : Number of regions
>                    1-2 : 0.052 : 0.052 :  134   |||||
>                      3 : 0.475 : 0.527 : 1234   |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>                      4 : 0.212 : 0.739 :  552   |||||||||||||||||||||
>                      5 : 0.017 : 0.756 :   44   ||
>                      6 : 0.024 : 0.780 :   62   ||
>                      7 : 0.019 : 0.799 :   50   ||
>                    8-9 : 0.031 : 0.830 :   80   |||
>                  10-11 : 0.020 : 0.849 :   51   ||
>                  12-13 : 0.018 : 0.867 :   46   ||
>                  14-15 : 0.022 : 0.889 :   57   ||
>                  16-17 : 0.017 : 0.906 :   45   ||
>                  18-19 : 0.016 : 0.922 :   41   ||
>                  20-21 : 0.010 : 0.933 :   27   |
>                  22-23 : 0.010 : 0.943 :   27   |
>                  24-26 : 0.012 : 0.955 :   31   |
>                  27-30 : 0.009 : 0.964 :   24   |
>                  31-35 : 0.009 : 0.973 :   23   |
>                  36-52 : 0.009 : 0.982 :   24   |
>                  53-71 : 0.010 : 0.992 :   25   |
>                 72-323 : 0.008 : 1.000 :   21   |
>
> ./:: info: Overall metrics for 'std.code.complexity:cyclomatic' metric
>         Average        : 0.569835111542
>         Minimum        : 0
>         Maximum        : 49
>         Total          : 1175.0
>         Distribution   : 2062 regions in total (including 0 suppressed)
>           Metric value : Ratio : R-sum : Number of regions
>                      0 : 0.741 : 0.741 : 1527   ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
>                      1 : 0.197 : 0.937 :  406   ||||||||||||||||||||
>                      2 : 0.009 : 0.946 :   18   |
>                      3 : 0.015 : 0.961 :   30   |
>                      4 : 0.016 : 0.976 :   32   ||
>                      5 : 0.007 : 0.983 :   14   |
>                      6 : 0.002 : 0.985 :    5
>                      7 : 0.003 : 0.988 :    6
>                      8 : 0.001 : 0.989 :    2
>                      9 : 0.001 : 0.991 :    3
>                     10 : 0.001 : 0.992 :    2
>                  11-12 : 0.001 : 0.993 :    2
>                     13 : 0.001 : 0.994 :    2
>                     14 : 0.001 : 0.995 :    3
>                     15 : 0.001 : 0.996 :    2
>                  16-17 : 0.001 : 0.997 :    2
>                  19-20 : 0.001 : 0.998 :    2
>                     21 : 0.000 : 0.999 :    1
>                  22-25 : 0.001 : 1.000 :    2
>                     49 : 0.000 : 1.000 :    1
>
> ./:: info: Directory content:
>         Directory      : client-test-webapp-rest
>         Directory      : core-webapp
>         Directory      : core-common
>
> --
> Happy hacking
> Petter Reinholdtsen
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