Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Java methods and C functions

Measuring the internal quality of source code is one of the traditional goals of making software development into an engineering discipline. Cyclomatic complexity (CC) is an often used source code quality metric, next to source lines of code (SLOC). However, the use of the CC metric is challenged by...

Full description

Saved in:

Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Journal of software : evolution and process Vol. 28; no. 7; pp. 589 - 618
Main Authors:	Landman, Davy, Serebrenik, Alexander, Bouwers, Eric, Vinju, Jurgen J.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	Chichester Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.07.2016 Wiley Subscription Services, Inc
Subjects:	empirical validation McCabe cyclomatic complexity metrics software maintenance
ISSN:	2047-7473, 2047-7481
Online Access:	Get full text
Tags:	Add Tag No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!

Be the first to leave a comment!