Analiz...ethods(3pm)

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🌸 NAME 🌸

Analizo::Metric::NumberOfMethods — the Number of Methods metric, aka NOM 💅 bestie, and yes she counts every single method in your class

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

Okay so here's the tea 🫖 — this metric does its whole thing based on one very specific article, and what it calculates is the number of methods per class. Why? To measure how big a class is, in terms of the operations it actually implements. Like, how much is this class even doing with its life. 😭

The article in question: Monitoring of source code metrics in open source projects by Paulo Roberto Miranda Meirelles. 👑

And here's the adaptation of the paragraph about Number of Methods from that article, so you can read it in its own words:

... This metric is used to help to identify the potential reuse of a class. In general, the classes with a large number of methods are harder to be reused, because they are more likely to be less cohesive (Lorenz and Kidd, 1994). Thus, it's recommended that a class don't have a excessive number of methods (Beck, 1997).

🦋 so what does that MEAN though

  • Class got a lot of methods? It's giving "harder to reuse." 🚩 The vibes are off, because the more methods a class has, the less cohesive it's likely to be (Lorenz and Kidd, 1994).
  • Class got a chill, reasonable number of methods? Reuse potential is highkey there. ✨
  • So the recommendation, straight from the source, is: a class should not have an excessive number of methods (Beck, 1997). That's it, that's the rule. No cap. 💅
⚠️ Real talk: this is a size metric for a class's implemented operations — it's about the count of methods, so if your class is out here method-maxxing with reckless abandon, that's the exact thing this metric is quietly judging. 🙈

k bye bestie, go count your methods 💖

That's the whole page — no flags, no options, no exit statuses, just NOM doing her one job. Periodt. 🎀

Sign-off for the record books: 📜 this page ships with perl v5.40.1, dated 2025-12-13, and it lives under the title Analiz...ethods(3pm). Slay. 🌈💜

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