Experiences of using the Dagstuhl Middle Metamodel for defining software metrics

Authors:
Jacqueline A. McQuillan;James F. Power
Affiliations:
National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland;National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Venue:
PPPJ '06 Proceedings of the 4th international symposium on Principles and practice of programming in Java
Year:
2006

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Abstract

In this paper we report on our experiences of using the Dagstuhl Middle Metamodel as a basis for defining a set of software metrics. This approach involves expressing the metrics as Object Constraint Language queries over the metamodel. We provide details of a system for specifying Java-based software metrics through a tool that instantiates the metamodel from Java class files and a tool that automatically generates a program to calculate the expressed metrics. We present details of an exploratory data analysis of some cohesion metrics to illustrate the use of our approach.