topic Re: Is there a tabular representation for code metric tests? in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Is there a tabular representation for code metric tests?

Ruediger_Plantiko — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 08:36:01 GMT

Hi,

I am doing some tests with all those nice code quality metrics built in in the code inspector. By design of the code inspector, I get a hierarchical (or tabular) list of messages for code objects differing somehow from an expected "norm".

This makes it difficult to evaluate if I do an evaluation over all custom code, since the log will contain thousands of messages. If this is the only way of getting an output from the code metric classes, a tedious post processing is required: Either I'll have to extract the numbers I am interested in with pattern search from the textual output, or I have to look for the database tables containing the results, extracting the right message variables which contain the metric.

What I am looking for is not messages but a tabular result representation, which for each code object simply lists the code quality numbers - in an ALV grid or something similar:

ex. stmts Halstead metric cyclometric complexity nesting depth Halstead's volume ...

...

Method ZCL_TEST->DO 53 102 200 4 2'011

Method ZCL_TEST->PUT 10 11 12 3 2'012

...

Does anyone know of such a tool? I have sen that for each test there is a class, like CL_CI_TEST_METRIC_NOES, which actually computes the metric. Is there some other framework making use of these classes? Or is SCI the only way to access them? (Meaning that I am damned to eat the "message-style" output of SCI).

Regards,

Rüdiger

P.S.: Switching the radiobutton from "Show Messages" to "Show Metric" is no solution. I still get messages as result (1000s of info messages, instead of warnings for only those code objects which pass the thresholds).

P.P.S.: I only see the way to write a report extracting the data from database table SCIREST_PS and putting them into the desired form. But maybe somebody has a solution for this already.

Re: Is there a tabular representation for code metric tests?

Former Member — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:27:52 GMT

About your thoughts on writing a report, a user was able to use FM SCI_INSPECT_LIST.

Re: Is there a tabular representation for code metric tests?

former_member184455 — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 09:28:23 GMT

Hi Rüdiger,

There are several metrics in the Code Inspector and some of them are able to produce a tabular output - unfortunately not all of them.

If you take the 'Procedural Metrics' (CL_CI_TEST_METRIC_PROC), this one will give you one single entry in the Code Inspector result tree if you have selected 'Show metrics' as parameter for the check. When double-clicking the entry, a list as you wished will be displayed.

The same holds true for

* Comment Language Metrics

* OO Size Metrics

* ABAP webdynpro Metrics

The mentioned 'Number of Executable Statements Metrics' (CL_CI_TEST_METRIC_NOES) on the other hand, has no tabular display. With a trick you could achieve it: switch to 'Results table' of the Code Inspector result and then change the layout to display all results parameters. Two of these parameters contain the check's KPIs.

Best Regards, Randolf