WIT Press


FLEXCHECK: A Flexible Software Measurement Tool

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

14

Pages

11

Published

1995

Size

958 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SQM950222

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

L. Fernandez

Abstract

This paper describes the results of the FLEXCHECK project at the Polytechnic University of Madrid. The project is aimed to construct a software metrics and testing assistance tool with several desirable properties: it can be easily adapted to any high-level procedural language, it runs on a popular environment like MS-Windows 3.1, and it offers a wide range of code and design metrics as well as testing coverage monitoring and data flow analysis. Details of the development of the tool using compiler construction techniques, description of tool interface capabilities, and ideas and experiences about how to use it both in software development and academic environment are included in the paper. 1. Introduction to Software Quality Assurance Quality has become the star phenomenon in the 90s in all

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