A synthesis of software science measures and the cyclomatic number

Ramamurthy, Bina; Melton, Austin

doi:10.1109/32.7622

Cited by 26 publications

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“…The metrics defined in [1] and [4] were designed to measure multiple aspects of complexity. The existence of such metrics raises other questions.…”

Section: Nesting Complexity and Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…For example, the measurement values of the well-known McCabe cyclomatic number [2] are affected by nesting, but these values do not measure a specific aspect of nesting such as depth or breadth. The metrics of Harrison and Magel [1] and Ramamurphy and Melton [4] explicitly involve depth of nesting, but nesting is only part of these metrics. This paper represents the beginning of a nesting research project.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Understanding and Measuring Nesting

Alrasheed

Melton

2014

2014 IEEE 38th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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Nesting is a fundamental and very commonly used programming construct. In many cases, the wise use of nesting contributes significantly to a programming team's elegantly designing a solution to a difficult problem. However, the ease with which nesting constructs may be created and the essentially unlimited depth and breadth to which they may exist also enable a programming team to create structures which may be extremely difficult to understand and maintain. In this paper, we examine nesting and nesting metrics. In particular, we discuss nesting and complexity; we give a new definition for the scope of a selection statement; we define simple and precise metrics for nesting depth and breadth; and we present a new nesting concept, the nesting tree.

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“…The metrics defined in [1] and [4] were designed to measure multiple aspects of complexity. The existence of such metrics raises other questions.…”

Section: Nesting Complexity and Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Understanding and Measuring Nesting

Alrasheed

Melton

2014

2014 IEEE 38th Annual Computer Software and Applications Conference

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“…For example, software science makes no consideration of nesting levels or control flow in the code [11], [12].…”

Section: B Halstead's Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reliance on correlation data for complexity metric use and validation

MacDonell

1991

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“…Unsuccessful Execution the program's control flow graph [15]. The reasoning behind this is that the higher this complexity gets the more difficult the test data generation covering this CFG arc becomes.…”

Section: Successful Executionmentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Following the suggestion in [15], the Halstead software science metrics can be combined with structural information gained from the CFG resulting in the weighted length, volume and effort. Their calculation that is described in the above mentioned paper is related to the nesting level of control structures and can be applied directly to database applications since the three primitive measures (i.e.…”

Section: Successful Executionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Program Analysis and Testing of Database Applications

Gardikiotis

Malevris

5th IEEE/ACIS International Conference on Computer and Information Science and 1st IEEE/ACIS International Workshop on Componen

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During the last decades database applications are undoubtedly among the most widely used types of software applications. The presence of database statements in their source code is one of their typical characteristics that however introduces many difficulties in their code-level analysis and testing. This paper describes an approach that resolves such issues and facilitates the employment of traditional software testing techniques. The approach involves two alternative methods and is founded on the execution plan that the underlying database management system derives for each SQL statement. To support this approach a prototype tool called DATeM has been developed and the experimental results from its usage are reported and analyzed.

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A synthesis of software science measures and the cyclomatic number

Cited by 26 publications

References 6 publications

Understanding and Measuring Nesting

Understanding and Measuring Nesting

Reliance on correlation data for complexity metric use and validation

Program Analysis and Testing of Database Applications

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