HASKELL METAMODEL FOR ASSESSING SOFTWARE QUALITY

Source code metrics and software visualization are in commonuse for imperative programming languages and are well supported by the available software tools. Especially tools that are based on a metamodel seem to provide platforms that ease the development of source code metrics and software visualizations. The availability of a metamodel could provide a boost to the research on software quality for the Haskell programming language by providing a common environment for the development of source code metrics and software visualizations. The development of a metamodel prototype helps to determine whether it is useful to develop such a metamodel and to discover themain design considerations. This thesis describes the design and implementation of this prototype – named metaHS – and discusses the main design considerations discovered. It will conclude that a scalable and extensible metamodel – combined with a well-designed domain specific language layer and a powerful graphical user interface environment – can be a useful tool for Haskell software engineers