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

DOI10.1109/TSE.1979.234165zbMath0395.68035OpenAlexW2068965694MaRDI QIDQ4178483

Bill Curtis, Sylvia B. Sheppard, Tom Love, M. A. Borst, Phil Milliman

Publication date: 1979

Published in: IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1979.234165

zbMATH Keywords

HalsteadStructured ProgrammingMccabe MetricsPsychological ComplexitySoftware Maintenance Tasks

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) General topics in the theory of software (68N01) Theory of software (68N99)

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