Re: CRAP for C++ ?

In article <[email protected]>,
    Srdjan Todorovic <[email protected]>  writes:

> I noticed an interesting Java project called CRAP4J (www.crap4j.org),
> to detect code that smells. While this seems really neat, there's no
> C++ support currently.

The main problem is measuring test coverage.  With languages that
contain reflection and dynamic code construction you can reflect over
the code and rewrite the code to emit coverage instrumentation in a
transparent manner.

SourceMonitor does a great job of measuring cyclomatic complexity for
many languages, including C++.  That will get you the complexity
measurements.  Simian does a great job of measuring code duplication,
which while not a part of the "crap" metric is still useful.

I recently saw mention of an interesting tool that instruments C++ by
having you feed it the preprocessed source which it then instruments
and feeds to the C++ compiler.  That was an interesting approach that
I hadn't considered before.  See <http://covtool.sourceforge.net/>
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