Determining C Complexity
John Baldwin
johnb at srchtec.UUCP
Sat Aug 4 08:11:18 AEST 1990
In article <204 at ssg0.UUCP> petej at ssg0.UUCP (Peter M. Jansson) writes:
>
>Has anyone really run a study of how code metrics correlate to
>maintenance costs? Something like "In this module, the complexity was
>high, and we had to make more changes to it after delivery" for a
>reasonable size system would be helpful.
1. T. Capers Jones; _Programming_Productivity_; McGraw-Hill; New York; 1986;
pp. 107-110.
2. T. Capers Jones; _Program_Quality_and_Programmer_Productivity; TR 02.764;
IBM Corp.; San Jose, CA; Jan 1977.
[If I can find the bibliography I did last year, there are some good ref-
erences in places such as "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering".
I'll look.]
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