On Tuesday, 15 November 2016 at 14:45:29 UTC, Stefan Koch wrote:
Hi Guys,
I was wondering how much interest in static analysis exists in
this community .
DMD already has rudimentary support for these kinds of things.
cyclic complexity
NPath complexity
Halstead complexity
3 nice fields of static analysis.
I'm currently working on Halstead
(https://github.com/BBasile/Coedit/blob/master/dastworx/src/halstead.d)
The Halstead metric (1977) is often considered as ratio of the
number of line code, while it's actually not at all. The Halstead
is based on the operations and the operations arguments. You can
have small functions using a lot of operands that will be bug
prone. You can have huge functions with very few operands used
and that are not bug prone. The Halstead metric can detect them.
It can tell you: "take care of this function".
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