… information on the code snippets and code complexity metrics that we selected … code snippets
and all 41 metrics). In Table II, we show the correlations among the four metrics for all code …

… We present how the cognitive complexity metrics can be … through program slicing to guide
programmers during software … in program comprehension and introduces program slicing. …

… Difficulty in understanding ≈ Difficulty in understanding the software … ensure that software
complexity is affected by software comprehension, cognitive complexity of the software should …

… Most of the literature on software comprehension deals with this approach. Code can also
be dynamically … In these complexity metrics, complexity is measured relative to the size of the …

… -validated metrics, which can lead to confusion and code that is … , we validate a metric called
Cognitive Complexity which was … A more recent trend in the field of program comprehension …

… whether metrics agree with complexity as perceived by programmers. We show that, first, …
metrics and in only few cases reproduce complexity rankings similar to human raters. Data-flow …

… Some studies suggest that for some language/application situations, LOC is at least as
good as Halstead's metric and McCabe's cyclomatic complexity metric. The most accepted …

… , the classes had code smells and were more coupled and complex compared to other …
Although the readability metrics that we used have been validated as good predictors of the …

… Program comprehension absorbs a large part of the time and effort spent by professionals
… provides better performance compared to those metrics. We considered the following ones. …

… However, as we show, this approach also faces many difficulties, due to the intricacy of
the concept of code complexity itself as well as to its interactions with the humans involved …