McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity Software

[John Curtis]

Can someone tell me where I can ftp some software to compute McCabe's CC
factor? I have never used such software (though I am told it is available). I
assume that the program reads in source code and compute the factor from that.
I would need something that reads COBOL code.

If such a package is not available by ftp, can someone tell me where I can find
a copy of a package to review for our organization?

Thanks.

John

[Warren Harrison]

You can try SET Laboratories PC-METRIC product for COBOL. It does the
Cyclomatic Complexity as well as Software Science and several other
metrics. The price is right ($274), but the COBOL version only runs
under MS-DOS, and it looks like you're using VMS. The only VMS
support right now is for FORTRAN, but C and Ada (no COBOL :-( )
are likely on their way. Their number is 503-829-7123 and they're
located in Mulino Oregon.

You could also try McCabe & Associates (somewhere in Maryland - I want to
say Greenbelt MD, but I'm pretty sure that's not right) or Verilog (somewhere
in Texas - Houston?) I'm not sure about VMS support for either of these,
but I know they have UNIX and MS-DOS versions (though maybe not UNIX
COBOL).

Keep in mind that the real value of these commercial metrics packages isn't
just the numbers they produce, but the post processing analysis tools
they give you to try and make sense of the numbers.

Warren

[Rob Schultz]

In article <56...@pdxgate.UUCP> war...@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) writes:
>
> You could also try McCabe & Associates (somewhere in Maryland - I want to
> say Greenbelt MD, but I'm pretty sure that's not right) or Verilog (somewhere
> in Texas - Houston?) I'm not sure about VMS support for either of these,
> but I know they have UNIX and MS-DOS versions (though maybe not UNIX
> COBOL).
>

> Warren
>

McCabe & Associates
Twin Knolls Professional Park
5501 Twin Knolls Road
Suite 111
Columbia, MD 21045
+1 301 596 3080 (Washington)
+1 301 995 1075 (Baltimore)
+1 800 638 6316
+1 301 995 1528 (FAX)

Verilog USA
Beauregard Square
6303 Little River Turnpike
Alexandria, VA 22312
+1 703 354 0371
+1 703 354 0374 (FAX)
(This information may be old. Verilog has also opened an office
in Texas. I do not know the address or telephone there.)

Well, I just found a new number for Verilog in Maryland (this
may be newer than the ones above).
+1 301 220 2430
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[Carl Jones]

in article <56...@pdxgate.UUCP>, war...@rigel.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) says:
>
> In article <28MAY199...@adpdp2.lanl.gov> 105...@adpdp2.lanl.gov (John Curtis) writes:
>>Can someone tell me where I can ftp some software to compute McCabe's CC
>>factor? I have never used such software (though I am told it is available). I
>

> You could also try McCabe & Associates (somewhere in Maryland - I want to
> say Greenbelt MD, but I'm pretty sure that's not right) or Verilog (somewhere

McCabe & Associates, Inc.
Twin Knolls Professional Park

Suite 111
Columbia, MD 21045

800-638-6316 Marketing Dept (ask for Christine Whalen)

We looked at their product and it is very interesting.
Carl Jones

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[Surya Josyula]

Verilog has a product called Logiscope which computes many
metrics including the McCabe complexity metric. The tool runs
on all workstation platforms and supports 80 languages and dialects
including Cobol. The total package including dynamic analysis
( test coverage analysis) capability is about $12k

The telephone number for Verilog is 1-800-424-3095 or
sa...@verilog.com

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