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GENERIC APSE EVALUATION QUESTIONS by Paul Dobbs General Dynamics Fort Worth, TX December, 1983 A. APSE CONFIGURATION: 1. What tools exist in your system which are directly user-accessible? 2. What tools and packages are not directly user-accessible? 3. Briefly describe each tool. 4. What tool or combination of tools (if any) support the following functions? - Command input - On-line assistance - Editing - Text formatting - Configuration control - Compilation - Assembly - Source code formatting - Statistical profiling - Cross reference generation - Library management - Linking - Downloading to target systems - Requirements processing - Data dictionary management - Rapid prototyping - Design language processing - Target environment simulation - Debugging of programs - Text management - Cost estimation - Scheduling - Tracking - Auditing - Complexity measurement 5. What functions not listed above are provided, and what tools provide those functions? 6. Are any predefined packages other than those defined in the Ada standard provided for inclusion in programs developed using the system? B. KAPSE: 1. Do the interfaces to the KAPSE conform totally to the CAIS? 2. If the answer to question 1 is no, do they conform to a subset of the CAIS? 3. If so, what CAIS packages are fully implemented? 4. What CAIS packages are only partially implemented or modified? 5. In what way are the packages listed in response to question 4 incomplete or modified? 6. What additional non-CAIS interfaces to the KAPSE exist? 7. Is the KAPSE run on the bare machine, or does it function through some underlying operating system? 8. If the KAPSE is built on an underlying operating system, is there provision for bypassing the KAPSE and accessing operating system functions directly? C. COMMAND LANGUAGE: 1. What language is the command language interpreter written in? 2. What are the interfaces between the command language interpreter and the KAPSE? 3. Are all interfaces from the command language interpreter and the tools through the KAPSE? 4. If not, what interfaces are not? 5. If there is an operating system underlying the KAPSE, does the command language interpreter support a mechanism to allow direct access to the functions of the underlying operating system? 6. Is the command language a menu system? 7. If so, are there methods by which experienced users can skip menu steps or otherwise expedite their path through the menu? 8. If a menu system is used, can an experienced user escape to a normal command language? 9. Is the command language host dependent? 10. Is the command language target dependent? 11. Is the syntax of the command language consistent with Ada syntax? 12. Is there a provision for a user defined startup command file to be executed at log on? 13. Does the command language interpreter provide facilities for user defined profiles (default settings) which are retained between sessions? 14. Does the command language interpreter provide a facility by which the user can query the system for information on his environment? 15. Does the command language interpreter provide facilities which support team programming efforts? 16. Does the command language interpreter allow a user to create or define a "working directory"? 17. Can a user change working directories? 18. If the answer to question 14 is yes, what restrictions are placed on such movement? 19. Can the user query system information such as date and time? 20. Is user access to all tools in the environment controlled by the command language or can the user bypass such controls by using the underlying operating system (if any)? 21. Is the tool invocation command format consistent across all tools in the environment? 22. When invoking a tool, what restrictions are placed on parameters? 23. Do default parameters exist for any of the tools? 24. Can a user change or modify such default parameters in his own environment? 25. Are default parameters displayed at tool invocation? 26. Are any tools restricted from invocation by levels of privilege? 27. If so, what are the levels of privilege, and who or what determines the level of privilege for a user? 28. Does the command language interpreter provide execution results to the user after a tool has completed execution? 29. Are such results consistent throughout the environment? 30. Are facilities provided by the command language to test the results of the execution of a tool? 31. What (if any) facility is provided to request that a tool be executed in background mode? 32. If a tool is executed in background, is the user provided with execution results upon completion of processing? 33. May a user query the status of a tool executing in background? 34. If background execution is allowed, what restrictions are placed on the number of executing background tasks? 35. Can a user terminate the execution of an arbitrary tool which is executing in background? 36. Is a batch execution ability provided? 37. If so, can the user halt the execution of a previously submitted batch process? 38. Can the user remove a previously submitted batch process from the queue before it begins execution? 39. Are the commands for accomplishing the operations in questions 34 and 35 the same? 40. If not, how do they differ? 41. How does the user display the status of a batch process? 42. Can the user examine the batch queue in its entirity? 43. Can the user submit a command file which contains multiple command language interpreter commands for batch execution? 44. Can the user submit a command file which contains multiple command language interpreter commands for background execution? 45. Can the user submit a command file which contains multiple command language interpreter commands for foreground execution? 46. Can the user temporarily delay the execution of a previously submitted batch process? 47. Can the user specify that a batch process only be executed after the execution of another batch process has terminated? 48. Can the user specify that a batch process only execute if another batch process terminates successfully? 49. Can the user abort the processing of a tool being run in the foreground? 50. Can the user suspend the processing of a tool in foreground? 51. Can the user resume the processing of a suspended foreground tool? 52. Can the user accomplish the functions in questions 47 and 48 for a tool executing in background? 53. Can the user accomplish the functions in questions 47 and 48 for a batch execution? 54. Are the commands in a command file which is executed in the foreground echoed to the user's console? 55. Does the user have control over the echoing of such commands? 56. What branching and control mechanisms are allowed in command files? 57. Can the user control the issuing of error messages from command files? 58. Can a command file take action based on errors in its own execution? 59. Are macro or parameter facilities provided for use with user defined command files? 60. If so, what restrictions are placed on their use? 61. Does the command language interpreter provide facilities for a user to input comments? 62. Does the comment syntax conform to Ada comment syntax? 63. Does the command language interpreter recognize string literals? 64. Does the command language interpreter perform expression evaluation? 65. Does the command language interpreter perform arithmetic operations? 66. If so, does the operator precedence conform to Ada operator precedence? 67. If not, what is the operator precedence? 68. Does the command language interpreter perform boolean operations? 69. If so, does the boolean operator precedence conform to Ada operator precedence? 70. If not, what is the boolean operator precedence? 71. Does the command language interpreter perform string operations? 72. Are all Ada string operations performed? 73. Does the string operation precedence conform to Ada operator precedence? 74. If macro substitution capability is provided for command files, are there any predefined substitutions? 75. If so, list them. 76. Can a user redefine these predefined substitutions? 77. Is a facility provided for user symbol definition? 78. Is a distinction made between local and global symbols and macro substitution definitions? 79. Can the user record all terminal I/O in a user specified file? 80. Can the user redirect the input or output of a tools to/from a user defined file? 81. Can the user redirect the output of diagnostic and error messages to a file? 82. Does the command language interpreter provide the capability to construct Unix-like pipes? 83. Does the command language interpreter provide a branching mechanism such as an IF statement? 84. Does the command language interpreter provide a multi-way branching mechanism such as a CASE statement? 85. Does the command language interpreter provide a LOOP WHILE mechanism? 86. Does the command language interpreter provide an indexed looping mechanism? 87. Is the nesting of the above mechanisms allowed? 88. Are any restrictions placed on the nesting of such constructs? 89. Are conditional or unconditional exiting or cycling mechanisms provided for loops? 90. Does the command language interpreter provide for the display of commands after macro/parameter substitutions have been made but before execution? 91. Does the command language interpreter provide for the display of commands after expression evaluation has taken place, but before execution? 92. How does the user end an interactive session? 93. Can the user automatically execute command procedures as part of or after logoff? 94. What additional capabilities are provided to the user by the command language interpreter? D. ON-LINE ASSISTANCE: 1. Is the help facility hierarchical in nature? 2. If the facility is hierarchical, can the user move up and down the hierarchy at will? 3. Can the user execute sideways movement in the hierarchy? 4. Does the help facility provide both tutorials and explanatory text for all commands? 5. Does the help facility provide the required format for all command language commands? 6. How does the help facility react to requests for information that it does not have? 7. Is the help facility easily modified to add information for new tools or to delete information for tools no longer offered? 8. Are all interfaces of the help facility routed through the KAPSE? 9. Does the help facility have a capability to expand upon and explain all the error and diagnostic messages which are produced by the command language interpreter and by all the tools? E. EDITING: 1. What tools exist for the entry and revision of text in the system? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and explain any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is provided for the user of these tools? 6. Can this assistance be invoked without leaving these tools? 7. Does the system contain an Ada syntax directed editor? 8. If so, what special hardware does this editor require to operate? 9. Can the user escape from syntax oriented editing to screen or text oriented editing? 10. Does this editor output text or some other form of the program? 11. Can program text originally entered on a text editor be edited using this editor? 12. If so, does any special processing have to take place beforehand? 13. Does the system contain a full screen editor? 14. If so, what special hardware does this editor require to operate? 15. Does this editor display text exactly as it would be printed out? 16. Does the system contain a line oriented editor? 17. Does this editor require any special hardware to operate? 18. What occurs when the user attempts to access a non-existent file? 19. If a file is created when the user attempts to access a non-existent file, does the user have the opportunity to abort this action? 20. What occurs when the user attempts to access an inappropriate type of file? 21. What types of files are considered inappropriate for editing? 22. What happens when the user attempts to access a file for which the user does not have access rights? 23. Is there a facility by which the user can browse through a file which cannot be changed? 24. Is there a facility by which the user can recover from an abnormally terminated editing session? 25. If so, describe this facility, giving special attention to its granularity (how fine is the detail which is saved, is every keystroke saved, is the entire file resaved every so often, does this slow the user during editing, etc.)? 26. What other facilities are provided with the system for text entry and revision? F. TEXT FORMATTING: 1. What tools exist in the environment for the formatting of text? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all the interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is given to the user of the text formatting tools? 6. If the tools are interactive in nature, can this assistance be obtained without terminating operation of the tools? 7. What special hardware is required for the output of the tools? 8. Do the tools provide both left and right justification? 9. Do the tools provide line centering? 10. Do the tools provide page headers and footers? 11. Do the tools provide automatic page numbering? 12. Do the tools generate indexes and tables of contents? 13. Do the tools provide variable line spacing? 14. Do the tools provide variable margins? 15. What other text formatting functions do the tools provide? G. CONFIGURATION CONTROL: 1. Is configuration control an integral part of the environment, or must the user invoke special tools to achieve configuration control? 2. If special tools are used, list them. 3. What languages are these tools written in? 4. What are the interfaces between these tools and the KAPSE? 5. Are all interfaces to configuration control through the KAPSE? 6. If not, list and explain those which are not. 7. What on-line assistance is provided to users with regard to configuration control? 8. Are new revisions of objects automatically created each time the objects are modified? 9. If so, are previous revisions still available? 10. If previous revisions of objects are still available, are they stored in toto, or as a list of changes and revisions from some base? 11. If versions are stored as a list of changes and revisions from a base, is the base the original object, the current version of the object, or some other version? 12. Can earlier versions of an object be changed by the user? 13. Can earlier versions of an object be changed by any of the tools? 14. If earlier versions of objects can be changed, does this cause a branching of the revision history? 15. Can a version be frozen so that it is safe from change? 16. Can a frozen version be unfrozen? 17. What privilege level is required to accomplish these actions? 18. Can the entire data base for a project or for the system be archived? 19. What facilities are available to archive a selected portion of the data base? 20. Is the user allowed to record comments about the reason for a change to an object under the configuration control system? 21. Are the time and date of changes automatically recorded for all changes to objects? 22. Is the identity of the user making a change recorded? 23. Can a history of an object and its changes be output? 24. Can the configuration control system automatically insert version and date information in text form into an object under its control? 25. What additional configuration control capabilities are provided? H. COMPILER: 1. What language is the compiler written in? 2. Are all interfaces from the compiler through the KAPSE? 3. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 4. What target machines does the compiler compile to? 5. Does the compiler compile to the host computer? 6. What on-line assistance is available to the user of the compiler? 7. Has the compiler passed the ACVC validation suite? 8. If not, has it been submitted for validation? 9. What percentage of the ACVC tests does the compiler pass? 10. How large is the compiler? 11. Is the compiler ever completely in memory? 12. If not, how large a portion of the compiler is in memory at any time? 13. What is the processing rate of the compiler? 14. How was this rate obtained? 15. For each target, does the compiler directly output object code? 16. For each target, does the compiler output assembly language? 17. For each assembly language output by the compiler, is a standard version of the assembly language used, and if so, which one? 18. Does the compiler support distributed machine targets? If so, explain for what targets this is true. 19. Is DIANA used as an intermediate language? 20. Is the DIANA generated by the various parts of the compiler available for use by other tools? 21. Can the compiler front end be run separately as a front end for other tools? 22. What global optimization capabilities are provided by the compiler? List specific optimizations. 23. What local optimization capabilities are provided by the compiler? List specific optimizations. 24. To what extent does the user control these optimizations? 25. Can the user specify optimization for minimal memory usage? 26. Can the user specify optimization for maximum speed of execution? 27. Can the user specify the use or non-use of specific optimizations? 28. What control does the user have over listings? Can the user control each of the following (on and off): - listing of the source text - reformatting of the source text - listing of text brought in with an "include" pragma - listing of the private parts of packages - listing of the attributes of all symbols in the source text - listing of a cross reference of symbols by locations used - listing of statistics concerning usage of symbols and Ada language constructs - listing of machine code or assembly language generated - listing of the intermediate language generated at various stages of compilation - listing of diagnostic and informational messages - listing of compilation statistics 29. Can calls into the runtime support packages be clearly distinguished in the machine code listing or assembly code listing? 30. Does the compiler generate a history file which records the person who performed the compilation and the date/time of the compilation? 31. Does the compiler record the versions of all compilation units used in the compilation? 32. Can the user halt the compilation after some stage, examine the current state of the compiler output, and restart the compiler? 33. Will the compiler generate code to automatically trace the execution of a statement, group of statements, or module? 34. Will the compiler generate code to track changes in value of any variable and print such changes? 35. Will the compiler generate code to provide statistics on the execution time/frequency of usage of any segment of code? 36. Are there various levels of diagnostic messages? 37. List the levels of diagnostic messages, give their meanings, and the result, if any of their occurrence in a program unit under compilation. 38. Can the user control the level of error which will abort compilation? 39. Can the user control the level of error which will abort the generation of object code? 40. Will the compiler generate code which will trace the occurrence of exceptions and the level at which they are handled? 41. Will the compiler generate code which will provide the same trace for exceptions which are not handled? 42. Do these facilities exist for programmer defined exceptions? 43. List and explain any pragmas which the compiler provides which are not specified in the language reference manual. 44. How many passes over the code does the compiler make? 45. Name and explain these passes. 46. What other capabilities are provided by the compiler? I. ASSEMBLER: 1. What tools are available in the environment to do assembly? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. What machines are these assemblers targeted to? 4. Are all the interfaces from these assemblers through the KAPSE? 5. List and explain any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 6. What on-line assistance is available to the user of these assemblers? 7. For each target, does the assembler accept a standard assembly language? If so, what standard? 8. Can modules assembled by these assemblers be interfaced to code produced by the Ada compiler? 9. Do these assemblers have a macro capability? 10. Do these assemblers have a conditional assembly capability? 11. What other capabilities do these assemblers provide? J. SOURCE CODE FORMATTING: 1. What tools exist in the system to provide formatting of Ada source code? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces for these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to users of these tools? 6. Does the formatting standard imposed by these tools comply with that suggested by the language reference manual? 7. Does the user have the ability to customize this standard in any way? 8. How do these tools react to structural errors in the input program? 9. What occurs when the user attempts to use these tools to reformat a file of an inappropriate type? 10. What occurs when the user attempts to access a file for which the user does not have the access privilege? 11. What additional capabilities are provided by these tools? K. Ada LIBRARY MANAGEMENT: 1. Is library management an integral part of the environment, or does the user have to invoke specific tools to accomplish library management? 2. If the user must invoke specific tools, list these tools. 3. What language are these tools written in? 4. Are all interfaces used by these tools routed through the KAPSE? 5. List and explain any interfaces not through the KAPSE. 6. Are all Ada objects automatically part of an Ada library? 7. Can the user specify the library to be used as a current library? 8. Can the name of the current library be displayed? 9. What on-line assistance is provided to the user with regard to the library system? 10. Is the configuration control system integrated with the library system? 11. Are all library objects automatically under configuration control? 12. Can the user rename a library object? 13. Can the user create a library object? 14. Can the user delete a library object? 15. Can the user freeze an entire library? 16. Are there any privilege level restrictions on the manipulation of library objects? 17. How are objects grouped and related within a library? 18. Can the user directly access and manipulate objects in libraries? 19. How do objects in libraries differ from other data base objects? 20. Does the library provide a mechanism for determining "with" dependencies among library objects? 21. What additional facilities in library management are provided? L. LINKER: 1. What tools exist on the system to allow the user to link together modules compiled which have been separately compiled? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to the user of these tools? 6. Are the linkers for the various targets of the system separate, or is a single (possibly parameterized) universal linker used? 7. Do these linkers support overlaying of code? 8. Do these linkers support linking of modules produced from different languages? 9. Do these linkers support distributed targets? 10. What other capabilities are provided by these tools? M. DOWNLOADING: 1. What tools are available in the environment to accomplish downloading of linked code to separate target systems? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to the user of these tools? 6. What special hardware or interfaces are required by these tools? 7. What software has to exist in the target systems to allow the use of these tools? 8. What additional capabilities are provided by these tools? N. REQUIREMENTS PROCESSING: 1. What tools are available in the environment to process requirements? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to the user of these tools? 6. Are any of these tools graphics based? 7. If so, is graphics used in the input or the output of these tools? 8. Is any special hardware required to support these tools? 9. Describe and explain these tools. O. DATA DICTIONARY MANAGEMENT: 1. What tools are provided for the management of data dictionaries? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. What are the interfaces between these tools and the KAPSE? 4. Are all interfaces between these tools through the KAPSE? 5. If the answer to the previous question was no, what interfaces are not through the KAPSE? 6. What on-line assistance is given to the user of the data dictionary system? 7. How is a data dictionary created? 8. Are data dictionaries automatically under configuration control? 9. How is a data item description added to the data dictionary? 10. Must all data items be fully defined, or can a data item be listed as TBD? 11. Can data items be defined hierarchically? 12. Can data items be defined in a logical (that is, implementation independent) manner? 13. If data items are defined in an implementation dependent manner, does this conform to Ada syntax? 14. Can data dictionaries be used throughout the life cycle? 15. Can a data dictionary be renamed by the user? 16. Are there any privilege level restrictions placed on manipulations of data dictionaries? 17. Can data dictionaries be reused by similar projects? 18. Does the data dictionary system allow automated lookup of data item descriptions by name? 19. Does the data dictionary system allow automated lookup of data items by keywords from their descriptions or associated comments? 20. What other facilities does the data dictionary system provide to the user? P. RAPID PROTOTYPING: 1. What tools exist in the system to do rapid prototyping? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces to these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to the user of these tools? 6. Describe and explain the functioning of these tools. Q. DESIGN LANGUAGE PROCESSING: 1. What tools are available in the environment to process design languages? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line help is available to the user of these tools? 6. To what extent is the design language recognized by these tools Ada? 7. Do these tools produce cross references of variables which appear in their input? 8. Do these tools produce cross references of program units which appear in their input? 9. Can these tools produce other cross references as specified by the user? 10. Do these tools produce module calling trees which show the calls made by all modules in their input? 11. Do these tools reformat the input according to the same standard as used by the system's source formatting tools? 12. What action do these tools take when they discover a structural error in their input? 13. What action do these tools take when the user attempts to access a file of the improper type? 14. What other capabilities are provided by these tools? R. TARGET ENVIRONMENT SIMULATION: 1. What tools exist in the environment to simulate target environments? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to users of these tools? 6. Do these tools provide facilities for halting simulations and examining the status of the simulation? 7. Can these tools capture a trace of the simulation in a file which can be printed out later? 8. Can these tools be used with the source level debugger of the environment (if one exists)? 9. What other capabilities are provided by these tools? S. DEBUGGER: 1. What tools are available in the environment for debugging programs developed on the environment? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance is available to users of these tools? 6. Are these debuggers at the machine level or at the source code level? 7. If the debuggers are at the source code level, can a user insert breakpoints at specific statements? 8. Can the user ask for a program interruption each time a specific variable is changed? 9. After a program interruption has been issued, can the user query the value of specific variables by name? 10. Does the debugger provide a mechanism by which the user can query the values of large pointer-connected structures without repeatedly typing long path names? 11. Can the user ask that the value of a specific variable be printed each time that it is changed? 12. Do these tools work with programs run directly on the host machine, run in simulated target environments which run on the host machine, or run on a remote host? 13. If the tools work with programs run on a remote host, what special hardware is required for their operation? 14. What other capabilities are provided by these tools? T. TEST MANAGEMENT: 1. What tools are available to the user to accomplish management of testing? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the interfaces between these tools, between the tools and the other tools in the system, and between the tools and the user all through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. Does the test management system aid in the generation of tests? 6. Does the test management system aid in the generation of stubs for testing? 7. Does the test management system compare the results of testing with the expected results and deliver a report on success/failure? 8. Does the test management system keep a record of tests attempted/passed/failed? 9. Can the test mangement system report on the percentage of tests completed? 10. Does the test mangement system provide a driver for unit testing? 11. What other functions are provided by the test management system? 12. What on-line assistance is available to the user of the test management system? U. COST ESTIMATION: 1. What tools are provided in the system to support cost estimation? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the tool to tool and tool to user interfaces through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line help is available to the user in dealing with cost estimation? 6. What type of model is used in cost estimation? 7. What is the primary input on which the cost is based? 8. What other factors can be input to modify the cost estimate? 9. Can the user print a justification of the cost estimate which is derived automatically from the input data? 10. Are there any privilege level restrictions in the use of the cost estimation system? 11. Is the cost estimation system linked to the schedule generating system? 12. What other functions are supported by the cost estimation sytem? V. SCHEDULE MANAGEMENT: 1. What tools are available to aid in schedule generation? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are all interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. Does the schedule system allow for the generation of a critical path analysis, showing which tasks are part of the longest path through the schedule? 6. Does the schedule system allow for the generation of alternate schedules by changing parameters and assumptions? 7. Is the generated schedule displayed in a graphic format? 8. Does the display or printing of the schedule require any special hardware? 9. What other functions does the scheduling system provide? W. TRACKING: 1. What tools are provided to assist with management tracking of the software development process? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the interfaces from these tools through the KAPSE? 4. List and describe the interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. Does the tracking system allow the tracking of project expenditures? 6. Does the tracking system allow the tracking of manhours? 7. Does the tracking system allow the tracking of the use of computer resources? 8. Does the tracking sytem allow the comparison of project milestones achieved versus scheduled milestones? 9. Does the tracking system support graphical output for histograms, line charts, activity charts, milestone charts and/or other such reports? 10. What other features does the tracking system provide? X. AUDITING: 1. What tools are provided in the system for doing auditing? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the interfaces from the auditing function through the KAPSE? 4. List and explain any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance facilities are available to the user of auditing? 6. What standards and rules are checked for by the auditor? 7. Can these standards be easily changed by the user? 8. Are there any privilege level restrictions involved in the use of the auditor? Y. COMPLEXITY MEASUREMENT: 1. What tools are provided in the system for doing complexity measurement? 2. What languages are these tools written in? 3. Are the interfaces from the complexity measurement function through the KAPSE? 4. List and explain any interfaces which are not through the KAPSE. 5. What on-line assistance facilities are available to the user of complexity measurement? 6. What metrics are used for complexity measurement? (for example McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity or Halstead's Software Science) 7. What other capabilities are provided by these tools?