… metrics. Several studies have explored software understandability and program comprehension
… Shima et al. considered the understandability of a software system by assessing the …

… metrics of attributes of object-oriented software are needed. In this chapter we take …
measurement theory approach; the focus is on the measurement of structural properties of software …

… By applying the proposed preprocessing to metrics measurement, we can find low-… of
metrics measurement with and without the proposed preprocessing on open source software …

… In fact, if a programmer is proficient, we would expect a lower value of cognitive load in
program comprehension tasks, when compared to ordinary programmers. However, we did not …

… this investigation show that most of the spatial complexity metrics evaluated offer no substantially
better information about program … have an explicit program comprehension semantics. …

… software engineering, several recommendation systems have attempted to improve program
understanding … better isolate the predictive power of these systems, we used these metrics: …

… show that modern software tools and especially compiler-compilers, metric life cycle model
and fractal metrics … the development and use of software metrics more efficient and effective. …

… We use the terms measures and metrics as synonyms. We do … will show in this book, it is
our view that behind every measure a … A theory of software measurement includes at least the …

… on software complexity metrics. We discuss and compare the properties of the analyzed
metrics, … Finally, we describe the complexity metric that we have defined, and that is completely …

… comprehension tasks [29]. Besides these studies, most research in software engineering using
biometric measure… ) to gain a better understanding of program comprehension. In contrast …