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8.1.1.7 Attributes "sum" and "stat"
You are not restricted to just counting elements in a relation. You
can evaluate a metric expression (see Section 8.5.2 "Metric Expressions") for the elements
in a relation, and add up the values, or return the maximum or minimum
value. For example:
<metric name="NumOps" domain="package">
<projection relation="context" target="class" sum="NumOps" />
</metric>
The expression "NumOps" is evaluated for each class in the package.
This metric returns the number of operations in the classes in
a package.
To return the maximum or minimum of the values evaluated for the
sum expression, specify the additional attribute "stat". The stat
attribute can take values "max", "min" or "sum" (default value). For
example:
<metric name="MaxNumOps" domain="package">
<description>The maximum number of operations in a class
of the package.</description>
<projection relation="context" target="class"
sum="NumOps" stat="max" />
</metric>
When you combine "sum" with the "element" and "eltype" attributes, the
sum will be taken over the elements returned by those attributes. For
example:
<metric name="SupplierOperations" domain="class">
<description>The number of public operations in the supplier
classes of a client class.</description>
<projection relation="depclient" target="dependency"
element="depsupplier" eltype="class" sum="NumPubOps"/>
</metric>
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