On Weyuker's Axioms for Software Complexity Measures

  • Authors:
  • John C. Cherniavsky;Carl H. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

Properties for software complexity measures are discussed. It is shown that a collection of nine properties suggested by E.J. Weyuker is inadequate for determining the quality of a software complexity measure.A complexity measure which satisfies all nine of the properties, but which has absolutely no practical utility in measuring the complexity of a program is presented. It is concluded that satisfying all of the nine properties is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition for a good complexity measure.