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4.2.2.1 Qualified Element Names

SDMetrics' filtering mechanism is based on the fully qualified names of design elements. For example, if your design model is called "BankingApplication", the fully qualified name of a class "Account" in a top-level package "businesslogic" is:
BankingApplication.businesslogic.Account
If class "Account" has a method "deposit" with a parameter "amount", the fully qualified name of parameter "amount" is:
BankingApplication.businesslogic.Account.deposit.amount

The first part in a fully qualified name is the name of the design model. The middle part of the fully qualified name consists of the names of design elements, following the path in the element containment hierarchy. The last part of the fully qualified name is the name of the element itself.