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Reliance on correlation data for complexity metric use and validation

Published:1991-08 Issue:8 Volume:26 Page:137-144
ISSN:0362-1340
Container-title:ACM SIGPLAN Notices
language:en
Short-container-title:SIGPLAN Not.

Author:

MacDonell Stephen¹

Affiliation:

1. Department of Engineering, Cambridge University, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 IPZ UK

Abstract

This paper reports the results of an experiment to illustrate the hazards of using correlation data as the sole determinant for software metric use and validation. Three widely cited complexity metrics have been examined in relation to the frequency of software development errors.

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Subject

Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software

Link

https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/122598.122613

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