A note on the Berry-Meekings style metric

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A note on the Berry-Meekings style metric

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Communications of the ACM archive
Volume 29 , Issue 2 (February 1986) table of contents

Pages: 123 - 125

Year of Publication: 1986

ISSN:0001-0782

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Warren Harrison	The Univ. of Portland, OR
Curtis R. Cook	Oregon State Univ., Corvallis

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

A modification of the Berry-Meekings "style metric"—applied to software from the corporate environment—finds little relationship between this style metric and error proneness.

REFERENCES

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	1	R E. Berry , B A.E. Meekings, A style analysis of C programs, Communications of the ACM, v.28 n.1, p.80-88, Jan. 1985 [doi>10.1145/2465.2469]
	2	Michael Evangelist, Program Complexity and Programming Style, Proceedings of the First International Conference on Data Engineering, p.534-541, April 24-27, 1984
	3	Gordon. R. Measuring improvements in program clarity. IEEE Softw. Eng. SE-5, 2 (Mar. 1979). 79-90. Applies Halstead's Effort measure to several sample program pairs published in "programming style" texts. The "improved" version of the programs had smaller E measures.
	4	Maurice H. Halstead, Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series), Elsevier Science Inc., New York, NY, 1977
	5	Warren Harrison , Curtis Cook, A method of sharing industrial software complexity data, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.20 n.2, February 1985 [doi>10.1145/988304.988310]
	6	Brian W. Kernighan , P. J. Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1982
	7	David Marca, Some Pascal style guidelines, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.16 n.4, April 1981 [doi>10.1145/988131.988140]
	8	McCabe, T. A complexity measure. IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng. SE-(Dec. 1976). 308-320. Describes a popular, graph theoretic based control flow software complexity metric. Its simple implementation is the number of decisions in the program plus one.
	9	Michael J. Rees, Automatic assessment aids for Pascal programs, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.17 n.10, p.33-42, October 1982 [doi>10.1145/948086.948088]
	10	G. Michael Schneider , Steven C. Bruell, Advanced Programming and Problem Solving with Pascal, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., New York, NY, 1981
	11	CORPORATE SPSS Inc., SPSS-X User's Guide, McGraw-Hill, Inc., New York, NY, 1983

CITED BY 6

	Lem O. Ejiogu, A unified theory of software metrics, Proceedings of the 1988 ACM sixteenth annual conference on Computer science, p.232-238, February 1988, Atlanta, Georgia, United States
	V. R. Basili, Recent advances in software measurement (abstract and references for talk), Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Software engineering, p.44-49, March 26-30, 1990, Nice, France
	Nghi Truong , Paul Roe , Peter Bancroft, Static analysis of students' Java programs, Proceedings of the sixth conference on Australasian computing education, p.317-325, January 01, 2004, Dunedin, New Zealand
	Susan A. Mengel , Vinay Yerramilli, A case study of the static analysis of the quality of novice student programs, ACM SIGCSE Bulletin, v.31 n.1, p.78-82, March 1999
	N. Gorla , A. C. Benander , B. A. Benander, Debugging Effort Estimation Using Software Metricsv, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, v.16 n.2, p.223-231, February 1990
	P. W. Oman , C. R. Cook, A paradigm for programming style research, ACM SIGPLAN Notices, v.23 n.12, p.69-78, Dec. 1988

INDEX TERMS

Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.8 Metrics
Subjects: Complexity measures
D.2.9 Management
Subjects: Software quality assurance (SQA)

General Terms:
Experimentation, Measurement

REVIEW

"Murat M. Tanik : Reviewer"

Berry and Meekings have defined a style metric based on how closely a program conforms to a given set of style rules [1]. In their conclusion, they stated that “. . . we are happy to enter into correspondence with interested parties whose more...

Collaborative Colleagues:

Warren Harrison: colleagues

Curtis R. Cook: colleagues

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