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Appendix D
Metric Extraction Illustration
The program in Listing D.1 illustrates how our extraction approach
counts the various metrics from the code. This block of Java code is a
syntactically and semantically valid Java program that highlights some
of the more complex metrics (not directly intuitive like a simple count
such as Number of Methods) that we extract from a class. The values
computed for the metrics for the class are listed at the top of the program
in the header comment (see Table 4.3 for full form of the abbreviations
used). The comments surrounding each line of code provide an
explanation of the metrics as computed for that line.
The program listing is on the next page.
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