Understanding program complexity: an approach for study

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  • Christopher Douce
  • Szonya Durant
چکیده

This short work in progress paper presents a series of experiments that are intended to explore two related research questions. The first research question is whether software complexity metrics have a cognitive basis or are ‘real’ in a psychological sense. The second research question aims to explore in greater detail how programmer memory may relate to measures of spatial software complexity. A small number of metrics are described, followed by a description of two different experiments which are continuing to be designed.

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تاریخ انتشار 2011