^ Names ^ Definitions ^
| ACAIC	|	Ancestor Class-Attribute Import Coupling | |
| ACMIC	|	Ancestors Class-Method Import Coupling |
| AID	|	Average Inheritance Depth of an entity |
| ANA	|	Count the average number of classes from which a class inherits informations |
| CAM	|	Computes the relatedness among methods of the class based upon the parameter list of the methods |
| CBOin	|	Coupling Between Objects of one entity |
| CBOout	|	Coupling Between Objects of one entity |
| CIS	|	Counts the number of public methods in a class |
| CLD	|	Class to Leaf Depth of an entity. |
| cohesionAttributes	|	 |
| connectivity	|	 |
| CP	|	The number of packages that depend on the package containing entity |
| DAM	|	Returns the ratio of the number of private(protected) Attributes to the total number of Attributes declared in a class |
| DCAEC	|	Returns the DCAEC (Descendants Class-Attribute Export Coupling) of one entity |
| DCC	|	Returns the number of classes a class is directly related to (by attribute declarations and message passing) |
| DCMEC	|	Returns the DCMEC (Descendants Class-Method Export Coupling) of one entity |
| DIT	|	Returns the DIT (Depth of inheritance tree) of an entity. |
| DSC	|	Count of the total number of classes in the design |
| EIC	|	the number of inheritance relationships in which superclasses are in external packages |
| EIP	|	the number of inheritance relationships where the superclass is in the package containing entity and the subclass is in another package |
| ICHClass	|	Compute the complexity of an entity as the sum of the complexities of its declared and inherited methods |
| LCOM1	|	Returns the LCOM (Lack of COhesion in Methods) of an entity |
| LCOM2	|	Returns the LCOM (Lack of COhesion in Methods) of an entity |
| MFA	|	The ratio of the number of methods inherited by a class to the number of methods accessible by member methods of the class |
| MOA	|	Count the number of data declarations whose types are user defined classes |
| NAD	|	number of attributes declared |
| NADExtended	|	Number of attributes declared in a class and in its member classes |
| NCM	|	Returns the NCM (Number of Changed Methods) of an entity. |
| NCP	|	the number of classes package containing entity |
| NMA	|	Returns the NMA (Number of New Methods) of an entity |
| NMD	|	number of methods declared |
| NMDExtended	|	Number of methods declared in the class and in its member classes |
| NMI	|	Returns the NMI (Number of Methods Inherited) of an entity |
| NMO	|	Returns the NMO (Number of Methods Overridden) of an entity |
| NOA	|	Returns the NOA (Number Of Ancestors) of an entity |
| NOC	|	Returns the NOC (Number Of Children) of an entity |
| NOD	|	Returns the NOD (Number Of Descendents) of an entity |
| NOH	|	Count The number of class hierarchies in the design |
| NOM	|	Counts all methods defined in a class |
| NOP	|	Returns the NOP (Number Of Parents) of an entity |
| NOParam	|	Maximum mumber of parameters of the methods of an entity |
| NOPM	|	Count of the Methods that can exhibit polymorphic behavior |
| PIIR	|	The number of inheritance relationships existing between classes in the package containing entity |
| PP	|	The number of provider packages of the package containing entity |
| REIP	|	EIP divided by the sum of PIIR and EIP |
| RFP	|	the number of class references from classes belonging to other packages to classes belonging to the package containing entity |
| RPII	|	PIIR divided by the sum of PIIR and EIP. |
| RRFP	|	RFP divided by the sum of RFP and the number of internal class references |
| RRTP	|	RTP divided by the sum of RTP and the number of internal class references |
| RTP	|	The number of class references from classes in the package containing entity to classes in other packages |
| SIX	|	Returns the SIX (Specialisation IndeX) of an entity |
| WMC1	|	Computes the weight of an entity considering the complexity of a method to be unity |
| McCabe	|	McCabe Complexity: Number of points of decision + 1 |
| CBO	|	Coupling Between Objects of one entity |
| LCOM5	|	Returns the LCOM (Lack of COhesion in Methods) of an entity |
| WMC	|	Computes the weight of an entity by computing the number of method invocations in each method  |

Computing POM metrics using PADL is made easy by the helper class pom.helper.MetricsGenerator. After having installed CPL, PADL, and POM, just go into the POM Tests project and have a look at this class. It provides a main method with snippets of code to call one of the three methods:

• computeMetricsFromDirectory
• computeMetricsFromEclipse
• computeMetricsFromJARs

which can be used to compute automatically metrics from various input sources. Also have a look at the constant array listing the metrics that must be computed or avoided: METRICS_TO_AVOID and METRICS_TO_COMPUTE.