Maven - Metrics. Metrics This document tries to collect information required to compute some metrics that are of interest in a design.
Most of it has been blatantly copied from the WebGain QA manual and from Robert C. Martin article : Object Oriented Design Quality Metric - An Analysis. See also McCabe publication Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric. 5 Common Automized Software Quality Metrics (with Pros & Cons) 1.
Source Lines of Code (SLOC) Counting lines of code is probably the most simple method. It mostly indicates the scale of the software and gives an input for project growth and planning. For example, if we get SLOC count once a month, we may sketch a graph of project growth. Of course this is not reliable due to refactoring and design phases but may give a viewpoint. PMD. Maven PMD plugin - Introduction.