Software complexity measurement

  • Authors:
  • Joseph P. Kearney;Robert L. Sedlmeyer;William B. Thompson;Michael A. Gray;Michael A. Adler

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City;Indiana Univ.-Purdue Univ., Fort Wayne;Univ. of Minnesota;Microelectronics Computer Consortium, Austin, TZ;Control Data Corporation, Bloomington, MN

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

Inappropriate use of software complexity measures can have large, damaging effects by rewarding poor programming practices and demoralizing good programmers. Software complexity measures must be critically evaluated to determine the ways in which they can best be used.