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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_and_mi` in `spaces/compute.rs`), so there is
55    // nothing to roll up from a child's finalized `Stats`. Combining
56    // the fields here would double-apply inputs already captured by the
57    // parent's 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::test_support::check_metrics_only_shim;
194
195    use super::*;
196
197    // Mi's dependency closure adds Loc + Cyclomatic + Halstead — the
198    // three inputs its formula consumes. No assertion here reads them
199    // directly; without them MI would be computed from zero-valued
200    // defaults.
201    check_metrics_only_shim!(check_metrics, Mi);
202
203    #[test]
204    fn mi_empty_file() {
205        check_metrics::<PythonParser>("", "empty.py", |metric| {
206            let mi = &metric.mi;
207            assert_eq!(mi.original(), 0.0);
208            assert_eq!(mi.sei(), 0.0);
209            assert_eq!(mi.visual_studio(), 0.0);
210        });
211    }
212
213    #[test]
214    fn check_mi_metrics() {
215        // This test checks that MI metric is computed correctly, so it verifies
216        // the calculations are correct, the adopted source code is irrelevant
217        check_metrics::<PythonParser>(
218            "def f():
219                 pass",
220            "foo.py",
221            |metric| {
222                insta::assert_json_snapshot!(
223                    metric.mi,
224                    @r#"
225                {
226                  "original": 151.2033158832232,
227                  "sei": 142.64306171748976,
228                  "visual_studio": 88.42299174457497
229                }
230                "#
231                );
232            },
233        );
234    }
235
236    #[test]
237    fn mi_sei_uses_comments_as_percentage() {
238        // Regression test for #241. `Stats::comments_percentage` is stored
239        // as a percentage in [0, 100], so `sei` plugs it directly into
240        // `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))`. Constructing `Stats` directly isolates the
241        // formula from the parsing pipeline and pins the scale the SEI
242        // formula expects: `perCM` is a percentage, not a ratio. With
243        // the pre-fix ratio scaling, this assertion would fail by ~50.
244        let stats = Stats {
245            halstead_length: 4.0,
246            halstead_vocabulary: 3.0,
247            halstead_volume: 4.0 * f64::log2(3.0),
248            cyclomatic: 1.0,
249            sloc: 10.0,
250            // 50% of lines are comments — drives the sin term hard.
251            comments_percentage: 50.0,
252        };
253        // Hand-derived: 171 − 5.2·log2(V) − 0.23·G − 16.2·log2(SLOC)
254        // + 50·sin(√(2.4·50)). The fifth term equals
255        // 50·sin(√120) ≈ 50·sin(10.954) ≈ −50·0.99989… ≈ −49.99…,
256        // which only lands in this neighborhood when CM is treated
257        // as a percentage; the ratio-scaled bug would put the term
258        // near +47 instead. Asserting a tight epsilon catches a
259        // reintroduction of the ratio-vs-percentage scaling bug.
260        let expected = 171.0
261            - 5.2 * stats.halstead_volume.log2()
262            - 0.23 * stats.cyclomatic
263            - 16.2 * stats.sloc.log2()
264            + 50.0 * (2.4_f64 * 50.0).sqrt().sin();
265        let actual = stats.sei();
266        assert!(
267            (actual - expected).abs() < 1e-9,
268            "sei = {actual}, expected {expected}",
269        );
270        // Sanity check against the pre-fix (ratio) behaviour: ensure
271        // the value is nowhere near the ratio-scaled answer.
272        let buggy = 171.0
273            - 5.2 * stats.halstead_volume.log2()
274            - 0.23 * stats.cyclomatic
275            - 16.2 * stats.sloc.log2()
276            + 50.0 * (2.4_f64 * 0.5).sqrt().sin();
277        // The ratio-vs-percentage flip moves the sin term by roughly
278        // its full ±50 amplitude; pin the bound at 50.0 so a partial
279        // regression (e.g. accidentally dividing by 10 instead of by 1)
280        // still fails this check instead of slipping under a generous
281        // threshold.
282        assert!(
283            (actual - buggy).abs() > 50.0,
284            "sei should differ from the ratio-scaled value by >50; got actual={actual}, buggy={buggy}",
285        );
286    }
287
288    #[test]
289    fn rust_mi_smoke() {
290        // Rust now derives MI from the populated Loc / Cyclomatic /
291        // Halstead trios via the default trait method. This test
292        // pins the per-function MI on a tiny straight-line function
293        // so accidental regressions in the cascade get caught.
294        check_metrics::<RustParser>("fn f() -> i32 { 1 }\n", "foo.rs", |metric| {
295            let mi = &metric.mi;
296            // expected: SLOC = 1, cyclomatic = 1 (no branches), and
297            // Halstead n1 = 4 (`fn`, `->`, `{`, `}` operators visible
298            // at unit level), n2 = 2 (`f` identifier, `1` literal).
299            // The default `Mi::compute` then folds those into the
300            // three MI variants — these numbers are produced by the
301            // populated Rust trios. Pinning them anchors the snapshot
302            // against accidental drift in the cascade.
303            assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
304            assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
305            assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
306        });
307    }
308
309    #[test]
310    fn go_mi_smoke() {
311        // Go uses the default `Mi::compute`; once Loc / Cyclomatic /
312        // Halstead are populated (they are for Go), MI is derived
313        // automatically. Pin the cascade against drift.
314        check_metrics::<GoParser>(
315            "package main\nfunc f() int { return 1 }\n",
316            "foo.go",
317            |metric| {
318                let mi = &metric.mi;
319                assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
320                assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
321                assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
322            },
323        );
324    }
325
326    #[test]
327    fn elixir_mi_smoke() {
328        // Elixir uses the default `Mi::compute`; with Loc / Cyclomatic
329        // / Halstead populated (and now Cognitive / Abc as well), MI
330        // derives automatically. Pin the cascade against drift.
331        check_metrics::<ElixirParser>(
332            "defmodule Foo do\n  def f(x), do: x + 1\nend\n",
333            "foo.ex",
334            |metric| {
335                let mi = &metric.mi;
336                assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
337                assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
338                assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
339            },
340        );
341    }
342
343    #[test]
344    fn cpp_mi_smoke() {
345        // C++ uses the default `Mi::compute`; Loc / Cyclomatic /
346        // Halstead all already populated for C++, and Abc / Npa / Npm
347        // / Wmc now contribute too. MI derives from Loc + Cyclomatic
348        // + Halstead via the default. Pin the cascade against drift.
349        check_metrics::<CppParser>(
350            "int f(int x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
351            "foo.cpp",
352            |metric| {
353                let mi = &metric.mi;
354                assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
355                assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
356                assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
357            },
358        );
359    }
360
361    #[test]
362    fn javascript_mi_smoke() {
363        // JavaScript uses the default `Mi::compute`; Loc / Cyclomatic
364        // / Halstead were already populated, and Abc / Npa / Npm /
365        // Wmc now contribute too. Pin the cascade against drift.
366        check_metrics::<JavascriptParser>(
367            "function f(x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
368            "foo.js",
369            |metric| {
370                let mi = &metric.mi;
371                assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
372                assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
373                assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
374            },
375        );
376    }
377
378    #[test]
379    fn mozjs_mi_smoke() {
380        // Mozjs shares JavaScript's MI cascade; this is a parity pin.
381        check_metrics::<MozjsParser>(
382            "function f(x) { if (x > 0) return 1; return 0; }",
383            "foo.js",
384            |metric| {
385                let mi = &metric.mi;
386                assert!(mi.original() > 0.0);
387                assert!(mi.sei() > 0.0);
388                assert!(mi.visual_studio() > 0.0);
389            },
390        );
391    }
392
393    /// `comments_percentage` feeds the unclamped SEI term
394    /// `50·sin(√(2.4·CM))`. A degenerate `Loc` with `cloc > sloc`
395    /// (which the loc.rs fix prevents for parsed input, but which the
396    /// clamp defends regardless) must yield a `comments_percentage`
397    /// capped at exactly 100, not the ~209 the raw ratio would give
398    /// (issue #461). Here `cloc = 2`, `sloc = 1` => raw 200%. Reverting
399    /// the `.clamp(0.0, 100.0)` in `Mi::compute` makes this fail.
400    #[test]
401    fn mi_comments_percentage_clamped() {
402        // cloc = 2 (degenerate), sloc = 1 (single non-unit row) => raw
403        // comments_percentage = 200%.
404        let loc = loc::Stats::with_cloc_sloc(2, 0);
405        assert_eq!(loc.cloc(), 2);
406        assert_eq!(loc.sloc(), 1);
407
408        let cyclomatic = cyclomatic::Stats::default();
409        let halstead = halstead::Stats::default();
410        let mut mi = Stats::default();
411        PythonCode::compute(&loc, &cyclomatic, &halstead, &mut mi);
412
413        assert!(
414            (mi.comments_percentage - 100.0).abs() < f64::EPSILON,
415            "comments_percentage must clamp to 100, got {}",
416            mi.comments_percentage
417        );
418    }
419}