A comparative study of spatial complexity metrics and their impact on maintenance effort
Zeeshan Ali Rana, Malik Jahan Khan, Shafay Shamail · 2006
Maintenance is an important phase of software lifecycle. A significant fraction of overall effort and cost is consumed on comprehension and maintenance. Maintenance effort is highly correlated with spatial complexity of the system. The existing metrics for measuring spatial complexity are not suitable for all types of software systems. These metrics sometimes do not depict the effect of the key factors, which contribute significantly towards maintenance effort. In addition, most of these metrics are suitable for a specific type of a system. In this paper, the existing metrics have been studied and their application areas have been identified