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Abstract

Software metrics is considered to be the most important tool in software process management. It is also measure of property for a specific piece of software. Metrics also serves as a resource to anticipate and avoid the problems. Since there are only few measurement tools available, the need for metrics tool in testing the software is increasing. Although many metrics have been proposed by researchers they are used in isolation or ignored because they are not focused much. Therefore, an open source tool called “JAM (java metrics)” is to be developed to calculate various metrics and to display the metrics in graphical representation for java code. This learning tool allows software engineers to measure their code and to improve their software quality. It calculates the metrics at class level and method level. This tool also provides some basic information about the metrics calculated.