SDMetrics V2.02

SDMetrics - the software design quality measurement tool for the UML.

SDMetrics - the software design measurement tool for the UML. SDMetrics measures structural design properties such as coupling, size, and complexity of UML designs. SDMetrics also checks design rules to automatically detect incomplete or incorrect design, and to point out violations of style guidelines such as circular dependencies or naming conventions. Software developers use this information to focus their design reviews and testing efforts on the potentially critical areas in the design that are likely sources of reliability or maintainability problems. UML design measurement also helps to identify opportunities for design refactoring, and supports effort estimation, project planning and monitoring. SDMetrics features a comprehensive suite of object-oriented design quality metrics and rules covering all UML diagram types. Users can easily add new design rules and metrics of their own, that are tailored to their local development process, usage of the UML, and review checklists. SDMetrics works with all UML modeling tools and reverse engineering tools that support the UML model interchange format XMI. Users can customize the XMI model import facility to handle non-standard or proprietary XMI extensions. SDMetrics supports UML1.3/1.4 with XMI1.0/1.1/1.2, and UML2.0/2.1 with XMI2.0/2.1. SDMetrics features a graphical user interface for interactive data exploration, and a command line interface for automated batch processing. Users can export the measurement data in various formats. SDMetrics is available free of charge for universities and non-profit institutions.

SDMetrics V2.02 Tags:
metrics measurement uml xmi complexity measure design rule heuristic guidelines quality tool coupling cohesion size effort loc mof

SDMetrics V2.02 system requirements:
Java 1.4 Runtime Environment