Program Complexity and Programmer Productivity
- 1 May 1978
- journal article
- Published by Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
- Vol. SE-4 (3), 187-194
- https://doi.org/10.1109/tse.1978.231497
Abstract
This paper proposes a measure of program control complexity from an information theory viewpoint. A set of empirical data showing programmer productivity as a function of program control complexity is also presented. The data reveals a step-function-like contour to programmer productivity with increasing program control complexity.Keywords
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