org.somox.metrics.hierarchy

Class AbstractHierarchyMapping<T>

java.lang.Object

org.somox.metrics.abstractmetrics.AbstractMetric

org.somox.metrics.hierarchy.AbstractHierarchyMapping<T>

All Implemented Interfaces:

IMetric

Direct Known Subclasses:

DirectoryMapping, PackageMapping

public abstract class AbstractHierarchyMapping<T>
extends AbstractMetric

Unified parent of package and directory mapping. Realizes hierarchy conformance mapping metrics. Mapping metric: Checks how well component candidates are arranged in the same or at least comparable packages / directories.
Naming: PackageDirectory must be read as an entity: can be either package or directory at the instance level. TODO: check efficiency

Author:

Klaus Krogmann

Constructor Summary

Constructors

Constructor and Description
AbstractHierarchyMapping()

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
boolean	isCommutative()
boolean	isNormalised()

Methods inherited from class org.somox.metrics.abstractmetrics.AbstractMetric

computeDirected, getLaunchConfigurationTab, getMetricParameters, initialize

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

equals, getClass, hashCode, notify, notifyAll, toString, wait, wait, wait

Methods inherited from interface org.somox.metrics.IMetric

getMID

Constructor Detail

AbstractHierarchyMapping

public AbstractHierarchyMapping()

Method Detail

isCommutative

public boolean isCommutative()

Specified by:

isCommutative in interface IMetric

Specified by:

isCommutative in class AbstractMetric

Returns:

true if the metric gives the same result if firstComponent and secondComponent are swapped

isNormalised

public boolean isNormalised()

Returns:

whether the metric is normalized. If it is normalized, values of this metric must be between 0.0 and 1.0.