Evaluating Software Complexity Measures

By Elaine J. Weyuker. IEEE Trans. Software Eng., 2010

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An Attack Surface Metric (2011, background): “Validating a software attribute’s measure is hard [17], [18], [19]; security is an attribute that is hard to measure and hence even harder to validate.”
Predicting faults using the complexity of code changes (2009, methodology): “Whereas our model quantifies the complexity of the code change process as calculated from the source code modification statistics, previous studies [1, 4, 6, 12, 36] quantify the complexity of the source code.”
Learning a Metric for Code Readability (2010, background): “A consensus exists that readability is an essential determining characteristic of code quality [1], [4], [8], [9], [10], [15], [30], [31], [32], [33], [34], [ 40 ], but not about”
A Metrics Suite for Object Oriented Design (2015, positive): “These include: lacking a theoretical basis [41], lacking in desirable measurement properties [47], being insufficiently generalized or too implementation technology dependent [45], and being too labor-intensive to collect [22].”