Compute And Report Software Metrics with CodeSonar®

CodeSonar´s analysis engine computes and reports both custom metrics defined by users and built-in metrics shipped with the tool itself.

• Metrics can be computed at various granularities such as analysis, compilation unit, file, procedure.
• The computation of those metrics is controlled by the user for each analysis run.
• Metrics values are reported in the CodeSonar Web GUI, which also allow to search and chart the metrics. They can also accessed programmatically through the API.
• For defining custom warning classes CodeSonar provides a straightforward mechanism which is based on metric values, so that a warning is issued whenever the value of a particular metric falls outside a specified range.

Built-In Metrics

CodeSonar shows metrics at function, file, and analysis granularity as the following table indicates.

HIS-Metrics

HIS (Herstellerinitiative Software, German for "OEM software initiative") was an automotive industry group consisting of Audi, BMW, DaimlerChrysler, Porsche, and Volkswagen which is now part of AUTOSAR.
CodeSonar supports most of the HIS Software Metrics. For more information, please do not hesitate to contact us

Custom Metrics

For defining custom metrics the tool provides both a straightforward method for specifying derived metrics and a full API functionality for specifying metrics that based on other computations.

• They can be enabled and disabled for each analysis by the user, and can be presented in the CodeSonar GUI as well as accessed through the API.
• Custom metrics can may also be used as basis for derived metrics, and for warning classes based on metric thresholds.

Once they are defined, the adapted metrics have the same functionality as the built-in-metrics

• activate /deactivate for each analysis by the user
• metrics are shown by the CodeSonar-GUI and are accessible via an API
• adapted metrics can be used as a foundation for derivative metrics