… software metrics could do more harm than good because it is doubtful whether they actually
measure what we think they measure [… between complexity metrics and code understanding […

… measures of program comprehension in software engineering research as a means to
improve software … We will then investigate various source code metrics of the reviewed code …

… metrics or the cyclomatic complexity. In this paper we report on our attempts to use software
metrics … e) Based on the computed correlations in (d) we decide on which software metrics …

… Unlike the original study, which only considered the correlation between individual
metrics and understanding, we combined metrics in statistical models, expecting that the …

… metrics to measure comprehension of conceptual models. By this we mean any empirical
finding that can be applied to a model to improve comprehension. … strictly quantifiable metric. …

… program comprehension. We recruited 45 student and professional participants to complete
a set of program comprehension … these metrics reflect developer comprehension of code. …

… Program comprehension is a precursor to many software engineering activities … metrics
for estimating the comprehension effort for typical control structures of imperative programming …

… elements (and corresponding metrics) needed for facilitating her software comprehension
tasks. For … by our approach; thus, improving flexibility in the tasks of program understanding. …

… of software measures with program comprehension from … software measures and code
comprehension. In summary, most existing studies investigate the correlation of software metrics …

… single metric value significantly influences a developer’s rating, this would be a strong call to
meticulously control program comprehension … against this measurement method altogether. …