The role of software measures and metrics in studies of program comprehension

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Abstract

Many studies have been conducted into how programmers comprehend software. Models based on these studies have pointed to top-down, bottom-up, and mixed models for describing the comprehension process. In most of these studies, however, a key element of the experiment is largely ignored: the underlying nature of the software being examined by the programmers. This paper discusses software measurements and metrics that must be considered as factors when conducting comprehension studies.

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Mathias, K. S., Cross, J. H., Hendrix, T. D., & Barowski, L. A. (1999). The role of software measures and metrics in studies of program comprehension. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual Southeast Regional Conference, ACM-SE 1999. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/306363.306381

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