Identification and Validation of Quantitative Measures of the Psychological Complexity of Software.

摘要

This final report describes a program of research conducted to identify factors affecting the psychological complexity of software. The work conducted pursuant to this task consisted of three multifactor experiments. The methodology employed in these experiments is described in detail. Separate sections discuss the results obtained for software complexity metrics and for modern coding practices. The major results of this research program are experimental verifications of increased programmer efficiency when working with structured code and the ability to predict programmer performance with Halstead's effort metric (a quantitative measure of software complexity). (Author)