Recovering management information from source code -- Extended Abstract
Peter Kampstra, Lukasz Kwiatkowski · 2006
management, software asset management. At large software-empowered companies, such as banks, a good insight into millions of lines of source code is often missing. Nevertheless, valuable management information often resides in the source code. In this paper we therefore present some source code measures that can be extracted from millions of lines of code in an automated fashion. Source code comments usually contain data such as version history, module creation date and time of compilation. Interrelations between modules, the amount of code reuse and number of lines of code can be obtained by deploying relatively simple lexical scripting (e.g. Perl). From the available data we recover useful management information. Coupling source-derived information to existing