Hi everyone!
I am conducting a small research project on the Vala compiler that
would principally study how it affects different quality metrics
(size, complexity, etc...) during the implementation step of the
development.
My goal is to confirm the relevance of metrics measured in the
generated C code to evaluate the quality of the sources. This is
important considering the impressive amount of tools that have been
developed to measure the quality of C/C++ sources.
By the same time, I also want to provide an empirical model that would
allow transformations of the measured metrics into significative
measures for the sources. For example we could be interested into
knowing the relationship between the size of input and output of valac
or the impact on the cyclomatic complexity.
Therefore, I am interested in projects of all size written in Vala
that generates C code during the build process. It would also be great
to have indications on how the sources are structured and how I can
extract them.
Ex. cloc $(find src -name '*.vala') $(find build -name '*.c')
Yet, I have these projects in mind:
* vala 30 KLOC
* valadoc 23.5 KLOC
* gnome-pomodoro 4.6 KLOC
I plan to use it as an empirical justification to setup a set of
measurements to control the quality of Valum, a web micro-framework I
will work on this summer.
The results will be all released under a Creative Commons license.
Thanks in advance :)
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