Measuring the Psychological Complexity of Software Maintenance Tasks with the Halstead and McCabe Metrics

Three software complexity measures (Halstead's E, McCabe's u(G), and the length as measured by number of statements) were compared to programmer performance on two software maintenance tasks. In an experiment on understanding, length and u(G) correlated with the percent of statements corre...

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Published in:	IEEE transactions on software engineering Vol. SE-5; no. 2; pp. 96 - 104
Main Authors:	Curtis, B., Sheppard, S.B., Milliman, P., Borst, M.A., Love, T.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	New York IEEE 01.03.1979 IEEE Computer Society
Subjects:	Codes Commenting Companies complexity metrics Computer programming Computer science Correlation analysis Documentation Experiments FORTRAN Halstead's E Human factors human factors in software engineering Length measurement McCabe's u(G) Measurement mnemonic variable names modem programming practices modifica-tions Programmers Programming profession Psychological aspects Psychology Resource management Software Software engineering Software maintenance Software measurement Software performance software science structured programming Variables
ISSN:	0098-5589, 1939-3520
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