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DynaMetrics: a runtime metric-based analysis tool for object-oriented software systems

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Paramvir Singh,

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 33, Issue 6

Pages 1 - 6

https://doi.org/10.1145/1449603.1449614

Published: 31 October 2008 Publication History

Abstract

Many Runtime/Dynamic metric suites for object-oriented software systems have been devised over the past decade. This paper introduces a new dynamic metric-based evaluation and analysis tool for Java and C++ software called DynaMetrics that is capable of evaluating and analyzing all the major dynamic metrics known till date. DynaMetrics also compares them with their static counterparts in order to find the usefulness of individual metric. The paper is part of our ongoing research on runtime/dynamic metrics for object-oriented software systems.

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Index Terms

DynaMetrics: a runtime metric-based analysis tool for object-oriented software systems
1. General and reference
  1. Cross-computing tools and techniques
    1. Metrics
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language types

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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Volume 33, Issue 6

November 2008

64 pages

ISSN:0163-5948

DOI:10.1145/1449603

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