Source Code Measurements (Halstead, McCabe etc.)
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Halstead's Software Science
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- Mohsin, S.; kaleem, Z.: Program Slicing Based Software Metrics towards Code Restructuring. Second International Conference onComputer Research and Development, 2010, pp. 738 - 741
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McCabe's Comlexity Metrics
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- Takahashi, R.: Software Quality Classification Model Based on McCabe's Complexity Measure. The Journal of Systems and Software, 38(1997)1, pp. 61-69