Code and data spatial complexity: Two important software understandability measures

Information and Software Technology

Volumn 45, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 539-546

  Chhabra, Jitender Kumar ^a   Aggarwal, K K ^b   Singh, Yogesh ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b GURU GOBIND SINGH INDRAPRASTHA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Code spatial complexity; Data spatial complexity; Psychological complexity; Software metrics; Understandability

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; DATA REDUCTION;

SPATIAL COMPLEXITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 0038485576     PISSN: 09505849     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-5849(03)00033-8     Document Type: Article

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