Short Names of Code Complexity Metrics

When annotating your code to justify metrics or creating custom software quality objectives, you use short names of code complexity metrics instead of the full names. The following table lists the short names for code complexity metrics.

Note that you can only annotate your code for function level code complexity metrics only.

Project Metrics

Code Metric	Acronym
Number of Direct Recursions	AP_CG_DIRECT_CYCLE
Number of Header Files	INCLUDES
Number of Files	FILES
Number of Recursions	AP_CG_CYCLE
Program Maximum Stack Usage	PROG_MAX_STACK
Program Minimum Stack Usage	PROG_MIN_STACK

File Metrics

Code Metric	Acronym
Comment Density	COMF
Estimated Function Coupling	FCO
Number of Lines	TOTAL_LINES
Number of Lines Without Comment	LINES_WITHOUT_CMT

Function Metrics

Code Metric	Acronym
Cyclomatic Complexity	VG
Higher Estimate of Size of Local Variables	LOCAL_VARS_MAX
Language Scope	VOCF
Lower Estimate of Size of Local Variables	LOCAL_VARS_MIN
Minimum Stack Usage	MIN_STACK
Maximum Stack Usage	MAX_STACK
Number of Call Levels	LEVEL
Number of Call Occurrences	NCALLS
Number of Called Functions	CALLS
Number of Calling Functions	CALLING
Number of Executable Lines	FXLN
Number of Function Parameters	PARAM
Number of Goto Statements	GOTO
Number of Instructions	STMT
Number of Lines Within Body	FLIN
Number of Local Non-Static Variables	LOCAL_VARS
Number of Local Static Variables	LOCAL_STATIC_VARS
Number of Paths	PATH
Number of Return Statements	RETURN