Journal ArticleDOI
A Complexity Measure
TLDR
Several properties of the graph-theoretic complexity are proved which show, for example, that complexity is independent of physical size and complexity depends only on the decision structure of a program.Abstract:
This paper describes a graph-theoretic complexity measure and illustrates how it can be used to manage and control program complexity. The paper first explains how the graph-theory concepts apply and gives an intuitive explanation of the graph concepts in programming terms. The control graphs of several actual Fortran programs are then presented to illustrate the correlation between intuitive complexity and the graph-theoretic complexity. Several properties of the graph-theoretic complexity are then proved which show, for example, that complexity is independent of physical size (adding or subtracting functional statements leaves complexity unchanged) and complexity depends only on the decision structure of a program.read more
Citations
More filters
Proceedings ArticleDOI
Experience from replicating empirical studies on prediction models
M.C. Ohisson,Per Runeson +1 more
TL;DR: Different levels of replication are defined to characterise the similarities and differences between an original study and a replication, with particular focus on prediction models for the identification of fault-prone software components.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Software Maintainability Evaluation Methodology
TL;DR: A conceptual framework of software maintainability and an implemented procedure for evaluating a program's documentation and source code for maintainability characteristics and some preliminary results from the use of this methodology by the Air Force Test and Evaluation Center are presented.
Book ChapterDOI
Is it all lost? A study of inactive open source projects
TL;DR: An analysis of the population of projects contained within one of the largest OSS repositories available is presented, in order to describe how projects abandoned by their developers can be identified, and to discuss the attributes and characteristics of these inactive projects.
Journal ArticleDOI
Change Prediction in Object-Oriented Software Systems: A Probabilistic Approach
TL;DR: This research work proposes a novel approach to predict changes in an object-oriented software system by using the dependencies obtained from the UML diagrams, as well as other code metrics extracted from source code of several releases of a software system using reverse engineering techniques.
Proceedings ArticleDOI
An explorative journey from architectural tests definition down to code tests execution
TL;DR: The steps to be followed to refine architectural tests into code level tests are described and illustrated in an empirical context by illustrating the hands-on experience in running some of the derived architectural tests on the TRMCS case study.
References
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Structured Programming with go to Statements
TL;DR: For serious students of structured programming, and also for language designers, Knuth's "Structured Programming with go to Statements" is probably the paper to read.
Journal ArticleDOI
Analysis of structured programs
TL;DR: It is shown that an arbitrary program P is reducible to a D-chart if and only if P does not contain a loop with two distinct exits.
Journal ArticleDOI
A genealogy of control structures
TL;DR: It is argued further that there is insufficient evidence to warrant more than if-then-else, while-do, and their variants and the importance of one-in, one-out control structures as operational abstractions.