A Suite of Cognitive Complexity Metrics
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2012
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In this paper, we propose a suite of cognitive metrics for evaluating complexity of object-oriented (OO) codes. The proposed metric suite evaluates several important features of OO languages. Specifically, the proposed metrics are to measure method complexity, message complexity (coupling), attributes complexity and class complexity. We propose also a code complexity by considering the complexity due to inheritance for the whole system. All these proposed metrics (except attribute complexity) use the cognitive aspect of the code in terms of cognitive weight. All the metrics have critically examined through theoretical and empirical validation processes. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.
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Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA); Universidade Federal do Reconcavo da Bahia (UFRB); Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS); University of Perugia; University of Basilicata (UB)
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attributes, class, cognitive complexity, coupling, inheritance, messages, methods, software metrics, validation
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Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) -- 12th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2012 -- 18 June 2012 through 21 June 2012 -- Salvador de Bahia -- 90945
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7336 LNCS
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PART 4
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234
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247