Identifying comprehension bottlenecks using program slicing and cognitive complexity metrics

Proceedings - IEEE Workshop on Program Comprehension

Volumn 2003-May, Issue , 2003, Pages 115-124

  Rilling, J ^a   Klemola, T ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

complexity measures; program comprehension; program slicing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION;

COGNITIVE COMPLEXITY; COMPLEXITY MEASURES; DYNAMIC PROGRAM SLICING; PROGRAM COMPREHENSION; PROGRAM SLICING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SOFTWARE INSPECTION; UNDERSTANDABILITY;

SOFTWARE DESIGN;

EID: 84979026645     PISSN: 10928138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPC.2003.1199195     Document Type: Conference Paper

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