Quantifying the Software Maintenance Task: an Empirical Study of Complexity Metrics Across Versions

This study concerns the discussion of popular software metrics, models and their applications. The thesis presents an empirical investigation of selected software metrics and also an empirical validation for a new metric, the residual complexity metric, based on industrial data.Computing and Information Science

An experiment in software science

This paper describes an experiment which was undertaken for two purposes: firstly to test the applicability of software science in the realm of student programming, and secondly to obtain quantitative inferences about the programming language PASCAL. The results suggest that software science offers little in the area studied, and possible reasons for this are discussed