What does control flow really look like? Eyeballing the cyclomatic complexity metric

Proceedings - 2012 IEEE 12th International Working Conference on Source Code Analysis and Manipulation, SCAM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 154-163

  Vinju, Jurgen J ^a   Godfrey, Michael W ^a,b  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CONTROL FLOW GRAPHS; CONTROL FLOWS; CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY METRIC; JAVA CONTROL FLOW; JAVA SYSTEM; LOW ENTROPY; OPEN SOURCES; REPETITIVE STRUCTURE; RESEARCH COMMUNITIES; SOFTWARE DEVELOPER; SOURCE CODES; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; ENTROPY; EQUIVALENCE CLASSES; FLOW PATTERNS;

OPEN SYSTEMS;

EID: 84872283779     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SCAM.2012.17     Document Type: Conference Paper

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