Learning a metric for code readability

RPL Buse, WR Weimer - IEEE Transactions on software …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… that the readability of a program depends largely upon the simplicity of its sequencing
control (eg, he conjectured that goto unnecessarily complicates program understanding), and …

Experimental assessment of software metrics using automated refactoring

M Ó Cinnéide, L Tratt, M Harman, S Counsell… - … and measurement, 2012 - dl.acm.org
program being refactored, but to assess the software metrics … paper is to measure a set of
metric values on a program, and … of refactorings to the program, measuring the metrics again af…

Measurement in software engineering: The importance of software metrics

R Samli, ZBG Aydın, UO Yücel - … to Object-Oriented Software Design …, 2020 - igi-global.com
… that any measure is better than zero measure. In this chapter, the software metrics are explained,
and some software … The software metric sets of Chidamber and Kemerer Metric Set (CK …

[PDF][PDF] Dealing with Software Metrics Collection and Analysis: a Relational Approach.

M Scotto, A Sillitti, G Succi, T Vernazza - Stud. Inform. Univ., 2004 - researchgate.net
… We plan to support other software metrics such as reuse metrics [13], MOOD metrics [5], etc.
To improve performances, the next version of the system will use stored procedures instead …

Evaluation of software product quality metrics

AJ Molnar, A Neamţu, S Motogna - … of Novel Approaches to Software …, 2020 - Springer
… We show that metric variability is greatest in early versions, before … understanding existing
correlations between metrics can further assist researchers in proposing and evaluating metric-…

Semantic software metrics computed from natural language design specifications

CS Gall, S Lukins, L Etzkorn, S Gholston, P Farrington… - IET software, 2008 - IET
… maintenance, they provide a consistent and seamless type of metric that can be collected …
NL-based program comprehension tool we have expanded to calculate semantic metrics from …

[PDF][PDF] A survey of software metrics

F Riguzzi - Università degli Studi di Bologna, 1996 - Citeseer
… field of software metrics. We start by considering the reasons why measurement of software
was introduced, then we describe what are the attributes of software and of the software

Software metrics: an introduction and annotated bibliography

ML Cook - ACM SIGSOFT software engineering notes, 1982 - dl.acm.org
… suggest that Halstead's effort metric is a better measure of understanding of programs than
length is, if the program has modules. Also, Halstead and McCabe metrics are related to the …

Using cognitive easiness metric for program comprehension

M Yin, B Li, C Tao - … 2nd International Conference on Software …, 2010 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… paper proposes an approach to program comprehension based on cognitive easiness metric.
Taking method as a basic unit, we divide all methods of program into two sets: understood …

[HTML][HTML] Effects of measurements on correlations of software code metrics

MAA Mamun, C Berger, J Hansson - Empirical Software Engineering, 2019 - Springer
… When a code metric is measured based on the values … of software, this study identifies such
a type of measure as organic. Density and average are two other ways of measuring metrics. …