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Measure program complexity

Recipe IDio.moderne.mainframe.analysis.FindProgramComplexity
Artifactio.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe

Measure size and complexity per program: source and comment lines as written and with copybooks inlined, McCabe cyclomatic complexity, statement and paragraph counts, copybook and call coupling, Halstead volume and a maintainability index. The point is triage — which of several thousand programs are the risky, expensive ones, and which are small enough to move without ceremony. Programs crossing thresholds drawn from published operating experience are flagged.

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Usage​

Run this recipe

This recipe has no required configuration options. Users of Moderne can run it via the Moderne CLI.

You will need to have configured the Moderne CLI on your machine before you can run the following command.

shell
mod run . --recipe FindProgramComplexity

If the recipe is not available locally, then you can install it using:

RELEASE resolves to the newest release and LATEST to the newest build of any kind, including snapshots. Either one lets mod config recipes upgrade pull in later versions without editing this command; a pinned version stays where you put it.

mod config recipes jar install io.moderne.recipe:recipes-mainframe:RELEASE

Data tables​

Program complexity
io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.ProgramComplexity

Size and complexity per program, for ranking a portfolio by risk and effort.

Export after a run
mod study . --last-recipe-run \
--data-table io.moderne.mainframe.analysis.table.ProgramComplexity
ColumnDescription
ProgramThe COBOL program.
Cyclomatic complexityMcCabe: one plus every decision the program can take, counting each operand of a compound condition separately.
StatementsProcedure division statements.
Source linesLines of the program as written.
Comment linesSource lines that are comments: an asterisk or slash in the indicator column.
Expanded linesLines with every copybook inlined where it is copied, which is what the compiler reads. A copybook that was not found adds nothing.
Expanded comment linesComment lines with every copybook inlined.
ParagraphsParagraphs declared.
SectionsSections declared.
Data itemsData items declared, including those copied in.
CopybooksDistinct copybooks copied in. More than twenty marks a program that is expensive to change, because its shape is set by files it does not own.
CallsDistinct programs called.
Halstead volumeVolume over COBOL operators and operands. The absolute value means little; the spread across a portfolio is what ranks programs.
Maintainability indexThe conventional 171-based index. Below about 65 reads as hard to maintain, below 20 as effectively unmaintainable.
FlagsThresholds crossed, from published operating experience rather than invented: more than 20 copybooks, more than 100 statements per paragraph on average, cyclomatic complexity over 50, or a maintainability index under 65.
Source files that had results
org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults

Source files that were modified by the recipe run.

Export after a run
mod study . --last-recipe-run \
--data-table org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileResults
ColumnDescription
Source path before the runThe source path of the file before the run. null when a source file was created during the run.
Source path after the runA recipe may modify the source path. This is the path after the run. null when a source file was deleted during the run.
Parent of the recipe that made changesIn a hierarchical recipe, the parent of the recipe that made a change. Empty if this is the root of a hierarchy or if the recipe is not hierarchical at all.
Recipe that made changesThe specific recipe that made a change.
Estimated time savingAn estimated effort that a developer to fix manually instead of using this recipe, in unit of seconds.
CycleThe recipe cycle in which the change was made.
Source files that had search results
org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults

Search results that were found during the recipe run.

Export after a run
mod study . --last-recipe-run \
--data-table org.openrewrite.table.SearchResults
ColumnDescription
Source path of search result before the runThe source path of the file with the search result markers present.
Source path of search result after run the runA recipe may modify the source path. This is the path after the run. null when a source file was deleted during the run.
ResultThe trimmed printed tree of the LST element that the marker is attached to.
DescriptionThe content of the description of the marker.
Recipe that added the search markerThe specific recipe that added the Search marker.
Source files that errored on a recipe
org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors

The details of all errors produced by a recipe run.

Export after a run
mod study . --last-recipe-run \
--data-table org.openrewrite.table.SourcesFileErrors
ColumnDescription
Source pathThe file that failed to parse.
Recipe that made changesThe specific recipe that made a change.
Stack traceThe stack trace of the failure.
Recipe performance
org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats

Statistics used in analyzing the performance of recipes.

Export after a run
mod study . --last-recipe-run \
--data-table org.openrewrite.table.RecipeRunStats
ColumnDescription
The recipeThe recipe whose stats are being measured both individually and cumulatively.
Source file countThe number of source files the recipe ran over.
Source file changed countThe number of source files which were changed in the recipe run. Includes files created, deleted, and edited.
Cumulative scanning time (ns)The total time spent across the scanning phase of this recipe.
Max scanning time (ns)The max time scanning any one source file.
Cumulative edit time (ns)The total time spent across the editing phase of this recipe.
Max edit time (ns)The max time editing any one source file.