Engineering Summary: Application Quality Summary

Purpose

Application Quality Summary shows metrics related to application quality such as Robustness, Security, Efficiency, etc. Limitation: widget shows data only if CAST data source is configured.

How metric helps

Application Quality Summary helps to understand, assess and track code health and quality and take actions to improve a code writing process in the team.

How metric works

Chart overview

Chart provides several views:

1 Table view: shows aggregated values for the metrics (on the left) and the same for each application (table on the right). Table has links to an applications page in CAST:

2 Chart view: it opens by clicking on an icon with the chart in the table at Main view. Depending on a metric selected in drop-down a chart revealing a metric trend in time by applications:

The legend is clickable - so you can easily turn off/on any applications for a better level of details.

Calculation 

Chart is based on a CAST configuration: only selected applications are taken into account:

See also CAST configuration.

Metric

Calculation

Unit of Measure

Metric

Calculation

Unit of Measure

Applications number

value is taken from the data sources configuration

In the example above, user selects 3 applications.

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Total Quality Index 

TTQI = ∑TQI_i..n/n,

where

TQI_i..n is a Total Quality Index value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Security  

TSec = ∑Sec_i..n/n,

where

Sec_i..n is a Security metric value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Robustness  

TRob = ∑Rob_i..n/n,

where

Rob_i..n is a Robustness metric value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Efficiency  

TEf= ∑Ef_i..n/n,

where

Ef_i..n is an Efficiency metric value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Changeability  

TCh= ∑Ch_i..n/n,

where

Ch_i..n is a Changeability metric value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Transferability

TTrs = ∑Trs_i..n/n,

where

Trs_i..n is a Transferability metric value for an application (value is taken as is from CAST);

n is Applications number.

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Critical Violations

total number of critical violations in selected applications

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Lines of code

total number of code lines for selected applications

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Data Source

Data for the chart can be collected from CAST.

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