A Qualitative Justification for a Measure of Program Clarity

1 March 1979

journal article
Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Vol. SE-5 (2) , 121-128
https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1979.234168

Abstract

Several measures of program clarity have been proposed which attempt to assess the clauity of a program as a function of easily measured properties of the code. Such measures include the number of variables or statements, or the density of GO TO's.

Keywords

IMPURITIES
SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT
VOLUME MEASUREMENT
COMPUTER LANGUAGES
PROGRAMMING PROFESSION
DENSITY MEASUREMENT
PURIFICATION
COMPUTER SCIENCE
DIGITAL SYSTEMS

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