Abstract
AbstractATHENA is a parametrizable software tool oriented towards the measurement of software quality characteristics. Measurement is based on the syntax and semantic (graph‐based) analysis of programs. ATHENA is language‐independent and customizable, i.e. language specifications as well as measurement algorithms are input to the tool which automatically generates the measurement environment for the corresponding language. Currently ATHENA has the ability to support Pascal, ADA and C and offers the possibility of measuring a set of kernel metrics (e.g. Halstead's ‘Software Complexity Measure’, McCabe's ‘Cyclomatic Complexity Metric’, Tai's ‘Data Flow Complexity Measure’ etc.). A specially designed specification language allows for easy implementation of design and code metrics. This is one of the reasons that ATHENA is particularly useful for software maintainability control.
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