Application domain: evaluated software measurement

Description:

SmallCritic [Mors94] is a Smalltalk extension for the measurement of object structures. It supplies empirical data for the design and implementation of object-oriented software and evaluates source code verbally and through diagrams. The evaluation is founded on different criteria:

• Volume: quantitative characteristics of classes (e.g. number of methods, number of class variables)
  
  
• Structure of methods: quantitative characteristics of methods (e.g. number of parameters and types of messages)
  
  
• Coherence: SmallCritic counts the number of external accesses to method variables
  
  
• coupling of classes: indicated by the degree of communication
  
  
• inheritance structure: number of inherited variables and methods
  
  
• organizational attributes: commenting, length of identifiers

Supported Languages: Smalltalk-80

Special features:

• object-oriented software measurement opposed to to empirical data

Requirements: MS Windows, UNIX