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Overview
Size is one of the most important attributes of a software product.
It is not only the key indicator of software cost and time but also
a base unit to derive other metrics for project status and software
quality measurement. Size metric is used as an essential input for
most of cost estimation models such as COCOMO®,
SLIM, SEER-SEM, and Price-S.
Although source lines of code or SLOC is a widely accepted sizing
metric, there is a lack of standard that enforces a consistency
of what and how to count SLOC. Ensuring consistency across independent
organizations in the rules used to count software cost code is often
difficult to achieve. To that end, the USC Center for Systems and
Software Engineering (CSSE) has developed and released a code counting
toolset called CodeCount to support sizing software code for historical
data collection and reporting purposes. This toolset is a collection
of tools designed to automate the collection of source code sizing
information. It implements the popular code counting standards published
by the Software
Engineering Institute (SEI) and adapted by COCOMO®. Logical and
physical SLOC are among the metrics generated by the toolset.
UCC is a unified and enhanced version of the CodeCount toolset.
It is a code counting and differencing tool that unifies the source
counting capabilities of the previous CodeCount tools and source
differencing capabilities of the Difftool (which is now replaced
by UCC). It allows the user to count, compare, and collect logical
differentials between two versions of the source code of a software
product. The differencing capabilities allow users to count the
number of added/new, deleted, modified, and unmodified logical
SLOC of the current version in comparison with the previous version.
With the counting capabilities, users can generate the physical,
logical SLOC counts, and other sizing information such as comment
and keyword counts of the target program.
Main Features
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Unified counting and differencing capabilities
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Supporting multiple languages in a single tool
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Counting and differencing directories
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Detecting duplicate source files
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Supporting both plain text and CSV output formats
Languages supported: Ada, ASP, ASP.NET, C#, C/C++, ColdFusion, CSS, HTML, Java, JavaScript, JSP,
Perl, PhP, SQL, VB, VbScript, XML, and newly supported languages Bash Script, ColdFusion, C Shell Script, Fortran, NeXtMidas, Python, and XMidas.
Previous Releases
CodeCount Tools - Release 2007.07 (Download:
Source)
CodeCount toolset is the precursor of the UCC tool. Unlike UCC,
this toolset is a collection of small programs, each measuring
the source code written in a single language. It does not have
the differencing capabilities supported by UCC. However,
this toolset can count the source code written in languages
currently not supported by UCC, including
COBOL, Assembly, PL/1, Pascal, and Jovial.
Documentation
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SLOC Counting Rules (ZIP)
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Technical Report: V. Nguyen, S. Deeds-Rubin, T. Tan, B. Boehm.
"A SLOC Counting Standard", COCOMO® Forum, 2007. PDF.
Contact
Anandi Hira. Email: {UnifiedCodeCount}@gmail.com
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