A survey on metric of software complexity

Author

Yu, Sheng ; Zhou, Shijie

Author_Institution

Sch. of Comput. Sci. & Eng., Univ. of Electron. Sci. & Technol. of China, Chengdu, China

fYear

2010

fDate

16-18 April 2010

Firstpage

352

Lastpage

356

Abstract

With the evolution of the software development, the scale of the software is increasingly growing to the extent that we cannot hand it easily. Some metrics are proposed to measure the complexity of software in last a few years. This article aims at a comprehensive survey of the metric of software complexity. Some classic and efficient software complexity metrics, such as Lines of Codes (LOC), Halstead Complexity Metric (HCM) and Cyclomatic Complexity Metric (CCM), are discussed and analyzed first. Then, some other approaches driven from above classic metrics are also discussed. The comparison and the relationship of these metrics of software complexity are also presented.

Keywords

software metrics; Halstead complexity metric; cyclomatic complexity metric; lines of codes; software complexity metric; software development; Application software; Computer science; Costs; Lab-on-a-chip; Programming profession; Project management; Software measurement; Software metrics; Stability; Usability; complexity measure; project managementt; software complexity; software measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Information Management and Engineering (ICIME), 2010 The 2nd IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5263-7

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5265-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICIME.2010.5477581

Filename

5477581