big_code_analysis/metrics/mi.rs
1// Per-language metric and AST modules deliberately consume the macro-
2// generated tree-sitter token enums via `use crate::*` and `use Foo::*`
3// inside match expressions — explicit imports would list dozens of
4// variants per arm and obscure the per-language token sets that are the
5// point of these files. Allowed at the module level rather than per
6// function so the per-language impl blocks stay readable.
7#![allow(clippy::enum_glob_use, clippy::unused_self, clippy::wildcard_imports)]
8// `u64` integral metric accessors (Halstead length/vocabulary, cyclomatic
9// sum, sloc/cloc) are widened to `f64` for the MI formulas; the casts are
10// bounded by the counts they came from (#530).
11#![allow(clippy::cast_precision_loss)]
12
13use std::fmt;
14
15use super::cyclomatic;
16use super::halstead;
17use super::loc;
18
19use crate::checker::Checker;
20use crate::macros::implement_metric_trait;
21
22use crate::*;
23
24/// The `Mi` metric.
25#[derive(Default, Clone, Debug, PartialEq)]
26#[non_exhaustive]
27pub struct Stats {
28 halstead_length: f64,
29 halstead_vocabulary: f64,
30 halstead_volume: f64,
31 cyclomatic: f64,
32 sloc: f64,
33 /// Comment lines as a percentage in [0, 100] (not a ratio in [0, 1]).
34 /// Only `sei` consumes this — the SEI MI formula uses `perCM` on
35 /// the percentage scale; see issue #241.
36 comments_percentage: f64,
37}
38
39impl fmt::Display for Stats {
40 fn fmt(&self, f: &mut fmt::Formatter) -> fmt::Result {
41 write!(
42 f,
43 "original: {}, sei: {}, visual_studio: {}",
44 self.original(),
45 self.sei(),
46 self.visual_studio()
47 )
48 }
49}
50
51impl Stats {
52 // Intentionally a no-op. MI is a derived metric: the parent space
53 // recomputes it from its merged Loc / Cyclomatic / Halstead inputs
54 // (`compute_halstead_mi_and_wmc` in `spaces.rs`), so there is nothing
55 // to roll up from a child's finalized `Stats`. Combining the fields
56 // here would double-apply inputs already captured by the parent's
57 // recompute. (Same rationale as `halstead::Stats::merge`.)
58 pub(crate) fn merge(&mut self, _other: &Stats) {}
59
60 #[inline]
61 fn inputs_are_empty(&self) -> bool {
62 self.halstead_volume <= 0.0 || self.sloc <= 0.0
63 }
64
65 /// Returns the `Mi` metric calculated using the original formula.
66 ///
67 /// Its value can be negative.
68 #[inline]
69 #[must_use]
70 pub fn original(&self) -> f64 {
71 if self.inputs_are_empty() {
72 return 0.0;
73 }
74 // http://www.projectcodemeter.com/cost_estimation/help/GL_maintainability.htm
75 171.0 - 5.2 * (self.halstead_volume).ln() - 0.23 * self.cyclomatic - 16.2 * self.sloc.ln()
76 }
77
78 /// Returns the `Mi` metric calculated using the derivative formula
79 /// employed by the Software Engineering Insitute (SEI).
80 ///
81 /// Its value can be negative.
82 #[inline]
83 #[must_use]
84 pub fn sei(&self) -> f64 {
85 if self.inputs_are_empty() {
86 return 0.0;
87 }
88 // http://www.projectcodemeter.com/cost_estimation/help/GL_maintainability.htm
89 171.0 - 5.2 * self.halstead_volume.log2() - 0.23 * self.cyclomatic - 16.2 * self.sloc.log2()
90 + 50.0 * (self.comments_percentage * 2.4).sqrt().sin()
91 }
92
93 /// Returns the `Mi` metric calculated using the derivative formula
94 /// employed by Microsoft Visual Studio.
95 #[inline]
96 #[must_use]
97 pub fn visual_studio(&self) -> f64 {
98 if self.inputs_are_empty() {
99 return 0.0;
100 }
101 // http://www.projectcodemeter.com/cost_estimation/help/GL_maintainability.htm
102 let formula = 171.0
103 - 5.2 * self.halstead_volume.ln()
104 - 0.23 * self.cyclomatic
105 - 16.2 * self.sloc.ln();
106 (formula * 100.0 / 171.0).max(0.)
107 }
108}
109
110#[doc(hidden)]
111/// Per-language computation of the maintainability index.
112pub(crate) trait Mi
113where
114 Self: Checker,
115{
116 /// Walk `node` and update `stats` with this metric for the language
117 /// implementing the trait.
118 fn compute(
119 loc: &loc::Stats,
120 cyclomatic: &cyclomatic::Stats,
121 halstead: &halstead::Stats,
122 stats: &mut Stats,
123 ) {
124 stats.halstead_length = halstead.length() as f64;
125 stats.halstead_vocabulary = halstead.vocabulary() as f64;
126 stats.halstead_volume = halstead.volume();
127 stats.cyclomatic = cyclomatic.cyclomatic_sum() as f64;
128 stats.sloc = loc.sloc() as f64;
129 // The SEI Maintainability Index expects `perCM` as a percentage
130 // in [0, 100], not a ratio in [0, 1] — `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))` is
131 // nonsensical when CM is two orders of magnitude too small. See
132 // issue #241 and Welker/Oman's original MI definition.
133 stats.comments_percentage = if stats.sloc == 0.0 {
134 0.0
135 } else {
136 // Clamp to [0, 100]: a comment ratio is a percentage of
137 // source lines and cannot exceed 100%. The SEI term
138 // `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))` has no clamp of its own, so an
139 // out-of-range CM (e.g. cloc > sloc) would distort
140 // `sei` by tens of points (issue #461).
141 (loc.cloc() as f64 / stats.sloc * 100.0).clamp(0.0, 100.0)
142 };
143 }
144}
145
146// `Mi` uses the bracketed `[Trait]` arm: this expands to a bare
147// `impl Mi for X {}` which inherits `Mi::compute`'s default trait
148// method body. The default method is fully language-neutral — it
149// combines already-computed Halstead / Cyclomatic / Loc stats into
150// the three MI variants — so this list is NOT a no-op like the named-
151// arm matrices for Abc / Npa / Npm / Wmc. Audited in #188.
152implement_metric_trait!(
153 [Mi],
154 PythonCode,
155 MozjsCode,
156 JavascriptCode,
157 TypescriptCode,
158 TsxCode,
159 RustCode,
160 CppCode,
161 MozcppCode,
162 CCode,
163 ObjcCode,
164 PreprocCode,
165 CcommentCode,
166 JavaCode,
167 KotlinCode,
168 GoCode,
169 PerlCode,
170 BashCode,
171 LuaCode,
172 TclCode,
173 PhpCode,
174 CsharpCode,
175 ElixirCode,
176 RubyCode,
177 GroovyCode,
178 IrulesCode
179);
180
181#[cfg(test)]
182#[allow(
183 clippy::float_cmp,
184 clippy::cast_precision_loss,
185 clippy::cast_possible_truncation,
186 clippy::cast_sign_loss,
187 clippy::similar_names,
188 clippy::doc_markdown,
189 clippy::needless_raw_string_hashes,
190 clippy::too_many_lines
191)]
192mod tests {
193 use crate::tools::check_metrics;
194
195 use super::*;
196
197 #[test]
198 fn mi_empty_file() {
199 check_metrics::<PythonParser>("", "empty.py", |metric| {
200 let mi = &metric.mi;
201 assert_eq!(mi.original(), 0.0);
202 assert_eq!(mi.sei(), 0.0);
203 assert_eq!(mi.visual_studio(), 0.0);
204 });
205 }
206
207 #[test]
208 fn check_mi_metrics() {
209 // This test checks that MI metric is computed correctly, so it verifies
210 // the calculations are correct, the adopted source code is irrelevant
211 check_metrics::<PythonParser>(
212 "def f():
213 pass",
214 "foo.py",
215 |metric| {
216 insta::assert_json_snapshot!(
217 metric.mi,
218 @r#"
219 {
220 "original": 151.2033158832232,
221 "sei": 142.64306171748976,
222 "visual_studio": 88.42299174457497
223 }
224 "#
225 );
226 },
227 );
228 }
229
230 #[test]
231 fn mi_sei_uses_comments_as_percentage() {
232 // Regression test for #241. `Stats::comments_percentage` is stored
233 // as a percentage in [0, 100], so `sei` plugs it directly into
234 // `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))`. Constructing `Stats` directly isolates the
235 // formula from the parsing pipeline and pins the scale the SEI
236 // formula expects: `perCM` is a percentage, not a ratio. With
237 // the pre-fix ratio scaling, this assertion would fail by ~50.
238 let stats = Stats {
239 halstead_length: 4.0,
240 halstead_vocabulary: 3.0,
241 halstead_volume: 4.0 * f64::log2(3.0),
242 cyclomatic: 1.0,
243 sloc: 10.0,
244 // 50% of lines are comments — drives the sin term hard.
245 comments_percentage: 50.0,
246 };
247 // Hand-derived: 171 − 5.2·log2(V) − 0.23·G − 16.2·log2(SLOC)
248 // + 50·sin(√(2.4·50)). The fifth term equals
249 // 50·sin(√120) ≈ 50·sin(10.954) ≈ −50·0.99989… ≈ −49.99…,
250 // which only lands in this neighborhood when CM is treated
251 // as a percentage; the ratio-scaled bug would put the term
252 // near +47 instead. Asserting a tight epsilon catches a
253 // reintroduction of the ratio-vs-percentage scaling bug.
254 let expected = 171.0
255 - 5.2 * stats.halstead_volume.log2()
256 - 0.23 * stats.cyclomatic
257 - 16.2 * stats.sloc.log2()
258 + 50.0 * (2.4_f64 * 50.0).sqrt().sin();
259 let actual = stats.sei();
260 assert!(
261 (actual - expected).abs() < 1e-9,
262 "sei = {actual}, expected {expected}",
263 );
264 // Sanity check against the pre-fix (ratio) behaviour: ensure
265 // the value is nowhere near the ratio-scaled answer.
266 let buggy = 171.0
267 - 5.2 * stats.halstead_volume.log2()
268 - 0.23 * stats.cyclomatic
269 - 16.2 * stats.sloc.log2()
270 + 50.0 * (2.4_f64 * 0.5).sqrt().sin();
271 // The ratio-vs-percentage flip moves the sin term by roughly
272 // its full ±50 amplitude; pin the bound at 50.0 so a partial
273 // regression (e.g. accidentally dividing by 10 instead of by 1)
274 // still fails this check instead of slipping under a generous
275 // threshold.
276 assert!(
277 (actual - buggy).abs() > 50.0,
278 "sei should differ from the ratio-scaled value by >50; got actual={actual}, buggy={buggy}",
279 );
280 }
281
282 #[test]
283 fn rust_mi_smoke() {
284 // Rust now derives MI from the populated Loc / Cyclomatic /
285 // Halstead trios via the default trait method. This test
286 // pins the per-function MI on a tiny straight-line function
287 // so accidental regressions in the cascade get caught.
288 check_metrics::<RustParser>("fn f() -> i32 { 1 }\n", "foo.rs", |metric| {
289 let mi = &metric.mi;
290 // expected: SLOC = 1, cyclomatic = 1 (no branches), and
291 // Halstead n1 = 4 (`fn`, `->`, `{`, `}` operators visible
292 // at unit level), n2 = 2 (`f` identifier, `1` literal).
293 // The default `Mi::compute` then folds those into the
294 // three MI variants — these numbers are produced by the
295 // populated Rust trios. Pinning them anchors the snapshot
296 // against accidental drift in the cascade.
297 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
298 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
299 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
300 });
301 }
302
303 #[test]
304 fn go_mi_smoke() {
305 // Go uses the default `Mi::compute`; once Loc / Cyclomatic /
306 // Halstead are populated (they are for Go), MI is derived
307 // automatically. Pin the cascade against drift.
308 check_metrics::<GoParser>(
309 "package main\nfunc f() int { return 1 }\n",
310 "foo.go",
311 |metric| {
312 let mi = &metric.mi;
313 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
314 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
315 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
316 },
317 );
318 }
319
320 #[test]
321 fn elixir_mi_smoke() {
322 // Elixir uses the default `Mi::compute`; with Loc / Cyclomatic
323 // / Halstead populated (and now Cognitive / Abc as well), MI
324 // derives automatically. Pin the cascade against drift.
325 check_metrics::<ElixirParser>(
326 "defmodule Foo do\n def f(x), do: x + 1\nend\n",
327 "foo.ex",
328 |metric| {
329 let mi = &metric.mi;
330 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
331 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
332 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
333 },
334 );
335 }
336
337 #[test]
338 fn cpp_mi_smoke() {
339 // C++ uses the default `Mi::compute`; Loc / Cyclomatic /
340 // Halstead all already populated for C++, and Abc / Npa / Npm
341 // / Wmc now contribute too. MI derives from Loc + Cyclomatic
342 // + Halstead via the default. Pin the cascade against drift.
343 check_metrics::<CppParser>(
344 "int f(int x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
345 "foo.cpp",
346 |metric| {
347 let mi = &metric.mi;
348 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
349 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
350 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
351 },
352 );
353 }
354
355 #[test]
356 fn javascript_mi_smoke() {
357 // JavaScript uses the default `Mi::compute`; Loc / Cyclomatic
358 // / Halstead were already populated, and Abc / Npa / Npm /
359 // Wmc now contribute too. Pin the cascade against drift.
360 check_metrics::<JavascriptParser>(
361 "function f(x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
362 "foo.js",
363 |metric| {
364 let mi = &metric.mi;
365 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
366 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
367 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
368 },
369 );
370 }
371
372 #[test]
373 fn mozjs_mi_smoke() {
374 // Mozjs shares JavaScript's MI cascade; this is a parity pin.
375 check_metrics::<MozjsParser>(
376 "function f(x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
377 "foo.js",
378 |metric| {
379 let mi = &metric.mi;
380 assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
381 assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
382 assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
383 },
384 );
385 }
386
387 /// `comments_percentage` feeds the unclamped SEI term
388 /// `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))`. A degenerate `Loc` with `cloc > sloc`
389 /// (which the loc.rs fix prevents for parsed input, but which the
390 /// clamp defends regardless) must yield a `comments_percentage`
391 /// capped at exactly 100, not the ~209 the raw ratio would give
392 /// (issue #461). Here `cloc = 2`, `sloc = 1` => raw 200%. Reverting
393 /// the `.clamp(0.0, 100.0)` in `Mi::compute` makes this fail.
394 #[test]
395 fn mi_comments_percentage_clamped() {
396 // cloc = 2 (degenerate), sloc = 1 (single non-unit row) => raw
397 // comments_percentage = 200%.
398 let loc = loc::Stats::with_cloc_sloc(2, 0);
399 assert_eq!(loc.cloc(), 2);
400 assert_eq!(loc.sloc(), 1);
401
402 let cyclomatic = cyclomatic::Stats::default();
403 let halstead = halstead::Stats::default();
404 let mut mi = Stats::default();
405 PythonCode::compute(&loc, &cyclomatic, &halstead, &mut mi);
406
407 assert!(
408 (mi.comments_percentage - 100.0).abs() < f64::EPSILON,
409 "comments_percentage must clamp to 100, got {}",
410 mi.comments_percentage
411 );
412 }
413}