@InProceedings{FranciscoGuerMeir:2017:ToExCo,
               author = "Francisco, Phyllipe de Souza Lima and Guerra, Eduardo and 
                         Meirelles, Paulo",
          affiliation = "{Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Instituto 
                         Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE)} and {Universidade de 
                         S{\~a}o Paulo (USP)}",
                title = "Annotation Sniffer: A tool to extract code annotations metrics",
            booktitle = "Anais...",
                 year = "2017",
         organization = "Workshop dos Cursos de Computa{\c{c}}{\~a}o Aplicada do INPE, 
                         17. (WORCAP)",
             keywords = "Software Metrics, Annotations. Metadata, Thresholds.",
             abstract = "Code annotation is a language feature that enables the 
                         introduction of custom metadata on programming elements. In Java, 
                         this feature was introduced on the version 5, and today it is 
                         widely used by the main enterprise application frameworks and 
                         APIs. Although this language feature potentially simplifies 
                         metadata configuration, its abuse and misuse can reduce source 
                         code readability and complicate its maintenance. The goal of this 
                         work is to propose software metrics regarding annotations in the 
                         source code and a tool capable of extracting these metrics values 
                         automatically. Annotation Sniffer is a plugin for the Eclipse IDE 
                         capable of analyzing all Java projects in the workspace and output 
                         a complete report with the metrics values in an XML format. It 
                         aims to help developer to maintain control of how annotations are 
                         being used in their project.",
  conference-location = "S{\~a}o Jos{\'e} dos Campos, SP",
      conference-year = "20-22 nov. 2017",
             language = "en",
           targetfile = "Lima_annotation.pdf",
        urlaccessdate = "27 abr. 2024"
}