Empirical analysis of the relationship between CC and SLOC in a large corpus of Java methods

Proceedings - 30th International Conference on Software Maintenance and Evolution, ICSME 2014

Volumn , Issue , 2014, Pages 221-230

  Landman, Davy ^a   Serebrenik, Alexander ^a,b   Vinju, Jurgen ^a,c  

^a CWI   (Netherlands)

^b EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

cylcomatic complexity; emperical research; software quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SOFTWARE QUALITY;

CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY; CYLCOMATIC COMPLEXITY; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; ENGINEERING DISCIPLINES; LINEAR CORRELATION; SOURCE CODE QUALITIES; SOURCE LINES OF CODES; TRADITIONAL GOALS;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 84931065225     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSME.2014.44     Document Type: Conference Paper

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