An empirical study of three common software complexity measures

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Symposium on Applied Computing archive
Proceedings of the 1993 ACM/SIGAPP symposium on Applied computing: states of the art and practice table of contents

Indianapolis, Indiana, United States

Pages: 203 - 207

Year of Publication: 1993

ISBN:0-89791-567-4

Author

Michael B. O'Neal

Louisiana Tech Univ., Ruston

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 2

	Matthew S. Harrison , Gwendolyn H. Walton, Identifying high maintenance legacy software, Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice, v.14 n.6, p.429-446, November 2002
	Jeong Yang , T. Dean Hendrix , Kai H. Chang , David Umphress, An empirical validation of complexity profile graph, Proceedings of the 43rd annual southeast regional conference, March 18-20, 2005, Kennesaw, Georgia

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.8 Metrics
Subjects: Complexity measures

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING

H. Information Systems
H.1 MODELS AND PRINCIPLES
H.1.2 User/Machine Systems
Subjects: Human factors

General Terms:
Human Factors, Measurement

Keywords:
program maintenance, programmer comprehension, software complexity measures, software engineering, software metrics

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