Software complexity—an alternative view

Authors:
Peter Kokol;Janez Brest;Viljem Žumer
Affiliations:
University of Maribor, FERI, Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, FERI, Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia;University of Maribor, FERI, Smetanova 17, 62000 Maribor, Slovenia
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1996

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Abstract

A different view on software complexity based on long range correlations is presented in this paper. Four different methods are proposed first and then used in the analysis of twenty FORTRAN programs. All methods being used indicate the presence of long range correlations, but every method gives different results. The presence of long range correlations denotes that we can infact regard the complexity of computer programs from a different perspective.