The Use of Software Complexity Metrics in Software Maintenance

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn SE-13, Issue 3, 1987, Pages 335-343

  Kafura, Dennis ^a   Reddy, Geereddy R ^b  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity metrics; design analysis; maintenance; software metrics

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

SOFTWARE METRICS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0023312154     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.1987.233164     Document Type: Article

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