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From: johnb@srchtec.UUCP (John Baldwin)
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Subject: Re: Determining C Complexity
Keywords: C, complexity, metrics, cyclomatic complexity, McCabe
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Date: 3 Aug 90 22:11:18 GMT
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In article <204@ssg0.UUCP> petej@ssg0.UUCP (Peter M. Jansson) writes:
>
>Has anyone really run a study of how code metrics correlate to
>maintenance costs?  Something like "In this module, the complexity was
>high, and we had to make more changes to it after delivery" for a
>reasonable size system would be helpful.

1. T. Capers Jones; _Programming_Productivity_; McGraw-Hill; New York; 1986;
                    pp. 107-110.

2. T. Capers Jones; _Program_Quality_and_Programmer_Productivity; TR 02.764;
                    IBM Corp.; San Jose, CA; Jan 1977.

[If I can find the bibliography I did last year, there are some good ref-
erences in places such as "IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering".
I'll look.]
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