… Finally, a manager should have an insight into the relative size and complexity of software
components without knowing exactly how they work. The truth is that program comprehension …

… gram comprehension, … software measures are good predictors for program comprehension.
Our goal is to evaluate whether and how software measures and program comprehension …

… for good software engineering practices. Software metrics are used in software engineering
… A survey of software metrics which are related to human performance is included. Recently …

… 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 […

… a program and its information content. Once we have a measure of information contained in
the software, study … It has already been established that software obeys the following laws of …

… Given these definitions, we build a set of metrics for use in the comprehension task. For …
The following is a set of measures and metrics that pertain to (semantic) clusters of source …

… in software … novel metrics based on current understanding of short-term memory performance,
to predict the location of high frequencies of errors and to evaluate the quality of a software …

… Recent research incorporates semantic information into metric … of software metrics to
grammarbased software applications, such as compilers, editors, program comprehension tools and …

… in comprehension tasks. In this paper, I review some of the key cognitive theories of program
comprehension … Context-driven views: The size of the program and other program metrics …

… you comprehend the source code?" To answer RQ2, we used source code metrics and the
amount of time needed to comprehend … in terms of semantics of the software into two types: …