Application domain: component measurement

Description:

MPP [Kuhr94] measures object-oriented attributes of C++ software. The results are presented in two overviews:

1. overall characteristics of the C++ file:
   • inheritance structure (e.g. number of classes and subclasses, depth, width) method statistics (e.g. total number, number of class-methods and instance-methods, average number of methods per class etc.)
   • detection of multiple inheritance
2. measurement results for the object classes:
   MPP builds a table containing the measurement results for all classes of the file after the use of a preprocessor. Whenever one of the recommended values is exceeded the respective entry is marked.
   • depth (recommended: <= 4) number of methods (recommended: <= 20) LOC
   • number of subclasses (recommended: <=10)

Supported Languages: C++

Special features:

• application of object-oriented metrics for C++

Requirements: DOS