Alitheia Core - A platform for software engineering research

Alitheia Core - A platform for software engineering research

Welcome to the web site of the Alitheia Core tool, an integrated platform for software engineering studies. Alitheia Core is free software, distributed under the 2 clause BSD license.

Alitheia Core works by importing the source code repository, mailing list archives and bug databases for a software project in a unified storage schema and running various analysis tools on the projects.

Examples of plug-ins include

Plug-in	Function	Lines
Size metrics	Calculates various project size measurements, such as number of files and lines for various types of source files	642
Module metrics	Aggregates size metrics per source code directory	417
Structural metrics	Implements classic code structure metrics, such as cyclomatic complexity and Halstead's software science metrics	685
Maintainability Index	Implements the (in)famous maintainability index formula	275
Developer Statistics	Implements statistics that have to do with developers, e.g. number of eyeballs per file version or community size	157
Contribution evaluation	Analyzes repository, mailing list and bug database developer activity and extracts a measurement of the developer contribution to the development process	670
Discussion heat	Measures the effect of heated email discussions on repository line intake	278

Getting Alitheia Core

You have the following options for getting Alitheia Core

• Get source code from anonymous SVN (Recommended)
• Download the Open Virtual Machine spec based virtual machine appliance

After you get Alitheia Core, you will need some data to play with. Here are raw data snapshots from various projects in the format Alitheia Core expects them:

• JConvert (SVN - 736K)
• Gnome-VFS (SVN, Mails, Bugs - 53M)
• SQO-OSS (SVN - 240M) - Eating our own dogfood!

Getting Alitheia Core to work on your project is easy, web design instructions will be posted soon on how to do it. We are very interested to hear from you on improving Alitheia Core.

Support

Alitheia Core was the outcome of the SQO-OSS project, an EC-funded campervan hire australia project (contract IST-2005-033331) which investigated novel ways to evaluate software quality.

The Athens University of Economics and Business provides rack space, power and bandwidth.