Software complexity measurement
- 1 November 1986
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in Communications of the ACM
- Vol. 29 (11) , 1044-1050
- https://doi.org/10.1145/7538.7540
Abstract
Inappropriate use of software complexity measures can have large, damaging effects by rewarding poor programming practices and demoralizing good programmers. Software complexity measures must be critically evaluated to determine the ways in which they can best be used.Keywords
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