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Web sites that mentioned the dotEASY project:

• http://www.dotnet-fr.org/links.php3?op=viewslink&sid=10

• http://www.gotdotnet.com/community/resources/Default.aspx?ResourceTypeDropDownList=Tools

• http://www.sellsbrothers.com/#news

• http://www26.brinkster.com/hch946cn/weblog/tools/default.htm

• http://radio.weblogs.com/0105897/2002/11/11.html#a43

• http://www.mcpmag.com/newsletter/article.asp?EditorialsID=135

  •      http://www.larkware.com/DevCentral/MCSD15.txt

Users comment's:

Kevin Amerson 1

Kevin Amerson 2

Luca Minudel 1 (Setup Problems)

Luca Minudel 2 (Comments)

Luca Minudel 3 (Bugs)

Kevin Amerson 1

Hello!

I am using alpha 2, got an email this morning... wonderful job! this is a really nice addin for visual studio.  I am more concerned with tracking application progress than making automatic code changes.  To that end, a few more features would be really nice:

- Export the metrics analysis to an xml file.

- Is there a way you could do an overall ""quality"" rating? and then explain the quality rating based on the metrics:

""Class1 has an overall quality rating of 77 out of 100.  This is based on distant package Instabilities of no more than .1 and no less than .9, etc... The biggest areas of improvement would be: fewer dependances from packages, increasing comment to code ratio, etc...""

Overall this is an excellent tool as it is!  I'll continue to provide feedback as I have time to analyze my core project with this.

Thank you!

dotEASY Team response

Kevin, First, thanks for trying our product.

 

Answering your questions:

 

    - (XML) When you generate a Metric Report or an Advice Report a html page is generated, also a xml file is generated in the same directory of the html with the     analysis.

 

    - (Quality Rating) For the second point "Quality rating" you can create code smells with thresholds that tells to the user the quality rating of a class. For example, create a code smell named "High quality" and add a threshold with the Inestability metric with a value upper of 80 (for example).

Then you can create others code smell with other ranges of a metric

Other solution is to develope a simple code smell validation that query the metric value of a code element (for ex. a class) and tells to the user the quality of the code element.

 

Some project's comments

 

 This is an academic project and these version will finish with the automatic code changes framework. It have a lot of details to improve (for example some metrics are not being calcuted ok). Briefly we'll publish the metrcis that are not ok.

 

These changes and other new functionallity we will do if we found investors, because it requires a lot of time. To realease the final version we have been working very hard for one year.

 

Thanks again

Kevin Amerson 2

Wow! thank you for the quick respone.

I still need to spend more time with your product, but yes please feel free to publish any of my comments on your site, or any future comments as well.

I also wanted to comment on the speed, your application is very fast, impressive over some of the other code tools that I've used to analyze my project.

This type of tool is very important is lacking in the community, thank you for developing it! and I'll continue to send you feedback.

Kevin

Luca Minudel 1 (Setup problems)

Hi all,

I'm luKa and I'm going through an exam of Software Engineering and I'm doing a project for the course. I'd like to use and try your dotEasy tool to collect some metrics from the code I wrote for the project but I got some trouble during setup.

I'm using Windows2000 Server SP3, MS .NET Framework 1.0 SP2, VS.NET

After setup the Add-In didn't start in VS.NET, when I mark it to start

from Add-In manager I had "Class not registered" error.

So I registered the Add-In dll with regasm (without /codebase because  the assembly is not strong named). After that the dotEasy sub-menu in the Tool menu appeared but when I select any dotEasy sub-menu item nothing happen.

Can you help me?

dotEASY Team response

Hi Luca,

 First of all, we?d like to thank you for trying our software and for posting this problem. We have discovered that this problem is rather common when it comes to program addins. I'm sendig you an alpha version, which calculates all the metrics. If you don?t mind, I would like to ask

you to fill the questions that are located in our page. I would also like to ask you to send a brief comment of what yo think about dotEASY, its GUI and everything you consider worth of comments.

Thanks in advance

• It doesn't work well when using a non administrator development user.

• IMHO I would prefer an external GUI that run outside VS.NET and that can work without VS.NET. I consider the Add-In gui an optional, I don't  consider it the main features.

• I'd like a wizard to automatically select metrics starting from attributes to assess (maintanability, analizability, stability, testability, etc.

• What about if dotEasy let me choose an XSLT file? I would like to be able to choose a CSV text format report too.

• dortEasy let do Namespace level measurements, but Assembly levels measures are missing (or is just me that I can't do it?). I would like a multi-Assembly measurement (think about CA and CE from other assemblies). I would also like to analyze ASP.NET projects (expecially C# code-behind) that are needed to measure CA and CE of the Business Layer. I would like the ability to run measurement by command-line (this would let me automatically and periodically repeat some measurements). I would like to optionally exclude events, delegates and exception types from measurements.

• I think it can be  good product, it miss just some feature that can be added. I've found some strange bug in measurement (I've already sent feedback). Just out of curiosity, what are you using to analyze code? C# syntactic analysis or reflection?

  dotEASY Team response

  Luca, thanks for aswering the questionnaire, we appreciate your feedback.
  When our new beta is out, we will contact you.
   
   
  Thanks again

 Luca Minudel 3 (Bugs)

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