An empirical validation of complexity profile graph

Proceedings of the Annual Southeast Conference

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 1143-1149

  Yang, Jeong ^a   Hendrix, T Dean ^a   Chang, Kai H ^a   Umphress, David ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Complexity profile graph; Control structure diagram; Program complexity; Program comprehension; Software complexity metric

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRUCTURE; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; EMPIRICAL VALIDATION; ERROR RATE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; LINEAR CORRELATION; PREDICATORS; PROGRAM COMPLEXITY; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; RESPONSE TIME; SOFTWARE COMPLEXITY; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING STUDENTS; SOURCE CODES; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; MACHINERY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

EID: 77953782591     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1167350.1167395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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