Title :
A Qualitative Justification for a Measure of Program Clarity
Author :
Gordon, Ronald D.
Author_Institution :
Digital Systems Research Department, Bell Laboratories
fDate :
3/1/1979 12:00:00 AM
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 :
Program clarity; software complexity; software measurement; software science; Computer languages; Computer science; Density measurement; Digital systems; Impurities; Programming profession; Purification; Software measurement; Volume measurement; Program clarity; software complexity; software measurement; software science;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/TSE.1979.234168
