Exploring software measures to assess program comprehension

International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 127-136

  Feigenspan, Janet ^a   Apel, Sven ^b   Liebig, Jörg ^b   Kästner, Christian ^c  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PASSAU   (Germany)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Program comprehension; Software measures

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING;

LINES OF CODE; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; ROLE OF SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE MEASURES; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; SOURCE CODES;

APPLICATION PROGRAMS;

EID: 84858723475     PISSN: 19493770     EISSN: 19493789     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/esem.2011.21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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