LOCCounter

Summary

The latest version supports source files written in Java/C/C++.

Metric

• Name: Lines Of Code (LOC)
• Description: the line count of source code.
  LOCCounter counts the number of lines except for ``blank lines'' and ``comment lines.''
  Comment lines mean the lines that consist of comment statement only.

Download

• Jar file: LOCCounter.jar Ver. 0.6
• Source files: repository in GitHub

Usage

• Options
  • (none): output LOC value only
  • -t : output the total count of lines (including blank lines and commet lines) instead of LOC value
  • -a : output both LOC value and total count of lines
  • -d : output all data including the contents
• Output format
  • (none) : file_name,LOC
  • -t : file_name,total_count
  • -a : file_name,LOC,total_count,blank_count
  • -d : outut data in the same format when -a is specified, and the details are outputed to the standard error
• The following summary information is display at the end of execution:
  # of source files = xxxxx, Total LOC = xxxxx, Total line counts = xxxxx

Reference

• Linda M. Liard and M. Carol Brennan, Software Measurement and Estimation: A Practical Approach, IEEE Computer Society, CA, 2006.
• R. Park, "Software size measurement: a framework for counting source statements," CMU/SEI-92-TR-020. http://www.sei.cmu.edu/pub/documents/92.reports/pdf/tr20.92.pdf
• N. Fenton and S. Pfleeger, Software Metrics, PWS Publishing Company, Boston, 1997.