Assessing software maintainability

Authors:
Gerald M. Berns
Affiliations:
Science Applications, Inc., Arlington, VA
Venue:
Communications of the ACM
Year:
1984

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Abstract

How easy is it to maintain a program? To a large extent, that depends on how difficult the program is to understand. A technique to measure program difficulty yields encouraging results.