The Java Metrics Reporter- An Extensible Tool for 00 Software Analysis

It has been argued for many years that software engineering lacks the repeatability and well-defined monitoring characteristic of the traditional engineering disciplines. Over time, numerous authors have addressed this issue by proposing a range of software metrics — although it is generally agreed that no one measure is suffi cient to capture software quality, and a well chosen suite of metrics must be employed. While substantial progress has been made, adoption of metrics has been limited in the software development community, and metrics have long suffered from a lack of comprehensibility. Further, critics have argued that many metrics have been introduced in isolation, with little regard for their relationship to existing measures, and without appropriate validation against a suffi cient body of