UID:
edocfu_9959135866202883
Umfang:
1 online resource (605 p.) :
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Num. tables
Ausgabe:
Reprint 2019
ISBN:
9783110866087
Serie:
Programmierung Komplexer Systeme / Programming Complex Systems ; 4
Anmerkung:
Frontmatter --
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Preface /
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Acknowledgements /
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Contents --
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1. Introduction --
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2. Problems in Evaluating the Complexity of Programs --
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2.1. Difficulties in Interpreting the Results of Software Complexity Measurement --
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2.2. Problems in Interpreting Numerical Values --
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2.3. Problems in Determining the Complexity of Programs --
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2.4. Problems in Calculating the Arithmetic Mean --
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2.5. Problems in Selecting Appropriate Software Complexity Measures --
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3. Discussion about Software Measurement and Measures --
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3.1. What is Software Measurement? --
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3.2. An Overview of Software Measurement --
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3.3. What are Software Metrics/Measures? --
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3.4. Classification of Software Complexity Measures --
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3.5. Verbal Definitions of the Term Complexity --
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3.6. Limits to the Values of Software Measures --
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3.7. Remarks About Measures in Relationship to Measurement Theory and Scales --
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3.8. Summary --
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4. Measurement Theory and Criteria for Scales --
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4.1. The Definition of the Empirical Relational System and the Formal Relational System --
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4.2. The Definition of Scales and Meaningfulness --
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4.3. Criteria for Ordinal and Ratio Scales --
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4.4. Description of Measures as an Ordinal and Ratio Scale --
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4.5. Characterization of the Measure of McCabe --
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4.6. Summary --
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5. Models of Programs and their Definitions --
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5.1. Definitions of Control Flowgraphs --
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5.2. Definitions of Subflowgraphs and Primes --
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5.3. Definitions and Notation for Decomposition of Flowgraphs, Sequence and Nesting --
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5.4. Definitions of Structuredness of Flowgraphs --
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5.5. Definition of Intervals and Reducibiiity --
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5.6. Definition of Loops --
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5.7. Definition of Unstructuredness of Flowgraphs --
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5.8. Notations Used in this Book --
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6. Ideas Behind the Complexity of Programs --
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6.1. Desirable Properties of Measures by Tsai, Lopez, Rodriguez and Volovik --
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6.2. Desirable Properties of Measures by Evangeiisti --
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6.3. Ideas of Complexity by McCabe --
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6.4. Ideas of Complexity by Belady --
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6.5. Axioms of Complexity by Piwowarski --
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6.6. Axioms of Complexity by Bache --
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6.7. Desireable Properties of Complexity Measures by Weyuker --
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6.8. Required Properties for Measures by Jayaprakash, Lakshmanan and Sinha --
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6.9. Summary --
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7. Our Investigation of Software Complexity Measures --
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7.1. Overview of our Investigation of the Measures --
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7.2. The "Measure Demonstration System" MDS --
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7.3. Atomic Modifications, Partial Properties and the Ordinal Scale --
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7.4. Extensive Structure and Binary Operations between Programs --
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7.5. Conditions for the Use of Measures as an Ordinal and a Ratio Scale in Practice --
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7.6. Summary --
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8. Characterization of Software Complexity Measures --
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8.1. Selection of the Software Complexity Measures --
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8.2. Measures of Halstead --
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8.3. Measure Lines of Code --
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8.4. Measures of McCabe and Modifications --
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8.5. Measures "Relative and Absolute Logical Complexity" of Gilb --
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8.6. Measure "Control Flow Density" of Szentes and Potier --
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8.7. Measures of Szentes and Gras --
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8.8. Measure of Oviedo --
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8.9. Measure PATH of Schneidewind --
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8.10. Measures of Whitworth and Szulewski --
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8.11. Measures of Hecht and Extensions --
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8.12. Measure of Moawad and Hassan and Extensions --
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8.13. Measure "Reachability" of Schneidewind --
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8.14. Measures of Chen --
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8.15. Measures Based on the Prime Decomposition of Flowgraphs --
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8.16. Measure of Schmidt and Gong and Extensions --
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8.17. Measures Based on Ranges --
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8.18. Measures for Analyzing the Unstructuredness of Flowgraphs --
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9. Results and Research in the Future --
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9.1. List of the Investigated Measures --
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9.2. Partial Properties of the Measures --
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9.3. Properties of Measures Related to the Extensive Structure --
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9.4. Set of Measures to Measure the Intra-Modular Complexity --
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9.5. Measurement Process of Restructure and Software Reuse --
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9.6. Wrong and Correct Calculation of the Arithmetic Mean --
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9.7. Complexity In Comparison to Reference Programs and Program Versions --
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9.8. Validation of a Measure --
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9.9. Correlation between Software Complexity Measures --
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9.10. Open Problems and Research in the Future --
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10. Glossary of Terms --
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11. References --
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Name Index --
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Subject Index --
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Measure Index --
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Definition Index --
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Backmatter
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In English.
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9783110122268
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1515/9783110866087
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110866087
