An Empirical Validation of Cognitive Complexity as a Measure of Source Code Understandability.
Marvin Muñoz BarónMarvin WyrichStefan WagnerPublished in: CoRR (2020)
Keyphrases
- source code
- empirical validation
- open source
- software systems
- empirically validated
- open source software
- static analysis
- software projects
- software maintenance
- object oriented systems
- open source projects
- software artifacts
- free software
- software repositories
- linux kernel
- program comprehension
- execution traces
- manual inspection
- high level
- impact analysis
- program understanding
- version control
- reverse engineer
- mailing lists
- authorship attribution
- plagiarism detection
- software evolution
- software design
- object oriented