… In cognitive informatics it is established that functional complexity of software is dependent
… understanding the software. This work begins with cognitive information complexity measure …

… program comprehension effort and programming activities is nuanced, as not all … measure
to quantify program comprehension effort of programmers by calculating Halstead’s metrics [3]…

… the cognitive complexity metrics can be applied on a system level and can be further refined
through program … A well-known effort to define metrics that correspond to cognitive effort and …

… technical debt on program comprehension effort, this paper … as an estimate of program
comprehension effort. To collect this … the program more complex [1]– [3]. Developers often refer to …

… predictors of some properties of program but not for others. For … Halstead’s effort measure
(E) was found to be a better … , the difficulty of understanding a program is an important factor. …

… in the field of program comprehension research is the usage of physiological measures by
… from different studies and different measures, our efforts ultimately revealed that studies on …

… The quantification process of the cognitive complexity as a metric is problematic since the …
complexity requires expansion beyond its quantification. The human comprehension effort …

… program comprehension based on semantic cues requires less cognitive effort than bottom-up
comprehension… based on semantic cues captures only one aspect of this complex process…

… the con sistency of source code comprehension strategies and com prehension effort estimation
metrics, such as LOC, … The complexity metrics were Halstead's E, McCabe's cyclomatic …

… While readability is a lower-level concern, an important goal of this work is to provide a
solid foundation for answering more complex questions related to program comprehension. …