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Appendix B
Raw Metric Data
The raw metric data files for all of the metrics defined in Chapter 4 are
located in the directory data/rawmetrics on the DVD. The metrics for
each software system (cf. Table 3.3) are in a separate data file.
The raw metric data files contain the following columns:
• Fully Qualified Class Name.
• Metric Name (We use the abbreviations as defined in Chapter 4).
• A list of metric values for each release of the software. Columns
with empty values indicate that the class did not exist in that release.
Sample of the data that is available in the raw metric file for each system
is shown in the box below. We list out the Number of Methods (NOM)
metric for 6 releases of 2 classes in the Apache Ant system. As can be
seen below, the second class did not exist in the first 4 releases and
hence has empty values for the metric.
org/apache/ant/AntClassLoader,NOM,8,13,17,43,43,46
org/apache/ant/AntTypeDefinition,NOM„„,20,20
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