The role of software measures and metrics in studies of program comprehension
Karl S. Mathias, James H. Cross, T. Dean Hendrix, Larry A. Barowski · 1999
Many studies have been conducted into how programmers comprehend software.Models based on these studies have pointed to top-down, bottom-up, and mixed models for describing the comprehension process.In most of these studies, however, a key element of the experiment is largely ignored: the underlying nature of the software being examined by the programmers.This paper discusses software measurements and metrics that must be considered as factors when conducting comprehension studies.