Problems in Systematic Application of Software Metrics and Possible Solution
This work addresses the problem of underutilization of software metrics for improving software quality, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing techniques.
The paper investigates limitations in contemporary software metrics tools that hinder wider adoption and proposes a new tool prototype designed to address these issues, focusing on its language independence.
Systematic application of software metric techniques can lead to significant improvements of the quality of a final software product. However, there is still the evident lack of wider utilization of software metrics techniques and tools due to many reasons. In this paper we investigate some limitations of contemporary software metrics tools and then propose construction of a new tool that would solve some of the problems. We describe the promising prototype, its internal structure, and then focus on its independency of the input language.