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As we try to fulfill the requirements upon quality of the software products we cannot avoid the use of the complexity metrics. There is a lot of different metrics and also there are hundreds of tools for analyzing the software with some of those metrics. However, since all tools available are concentrated only on some specific programming metrics, for a comprehensive analysis one has to use a lot of different tools. We wanted to derive an environment that would include all of the mostly used metrics, and since we are also developing new metrics ourselves, we developed a tool called Software Complexity Analyzer, that beside classical metrics incorporates also more universal fractal metrics.
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Podgorelec, V., Kokol, P., Zorman, M. (2000). A Fractal Software Complexity Metric Analyser. In: Kopacek, P., Moreno-Díaz, R., Pichler, F. (eds) Computer Aided Systems Theory - EUROCAST’99. EUROCAST 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1798. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/10720123_42
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