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Halstead Metrics

Halstead Metrics is a software metric that quantifies the complexity and effort of a program based on the number of distinct operators and operands and their total occurrences in the source code.

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Halstead Software Science

Parents

Publications

37

Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation

Alan J. Albrecht, John E. Gaffney · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1983 · 1.6K citations

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Measuring the Psychological Complexity of Software Maintenance Tasks with the Halstead and McCabe Metrics

Bruce Curtis, Sylvia B. Sheppard, Phil Milliman et al. · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1979 · 287 citations

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A simpler model of software readability

Daryl Posnett, Abram Hindle, Prémkumar Dévanbu · 2011 · 172 citations

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Number of Faults per Line of Code

M. Lipow · IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering · 1982 · 150 citations

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Third time charm: Stronger prediction of programmer performance by software complexity metrics

Bill Curtis, Sylvia B. Sheppard, Phil Milliman · International Conference on Software Engineering · 1979 · 117 citations

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Authors

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  1. SB
    Sylvia B. Sheppard

    General Electric (United States), United States

    3 publications · 420 citations

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  2. PM
    Phil Milliman

    General Electric (United States), United States

    3 publications · 420 citations

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  3. DK
    Dennis Kafura

    Virginia Tech, United States

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  4. KH
    Kathy Harris

    Harvard University, United States

    2 publications · 119 citations

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  5. CT
    Chandrasegar Thirumalai

    Vellore Institute of Technology University, India

    2 publications · 88 citations

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Institutions

39

  1. IBM (United States)

    Armonk, United States

    2 h-index

    2 publications

    1.6K citations

  2. Vellore Institute of Technology University

    Vellore, India

    2 h-index

    6 publications

    282 citations

  3. General Electric (United States)

    Boston, United States

    2 h-index

    10 publications

    1.5K citations

  4. Universidad Veracruzana

    Xalapa, Mexico

    1 h-index

    4 publications

    104 citations

  5. Universidad de Valladolid

    Valladolid, Spain

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    59 citations

  6. Sri Lanka Institute of Information Technology

    Colombo, Sri Lanka

    1 h-index

    3 publications

    105 citations

  7. University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

    Milwaukee, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    47 citations

  8. General Motors (United States)

    Detroit, United States

    1 h-index

    1 publications

    48 citations

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Venues

  1. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

    TSE · 5 publications · 2.1K citations

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  2. ACM SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review

    PER · 3 publications · 144 citations

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  3. ACM SIGPLAN Notices

    3 publications · 115 citations

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  4. NASA Technical Reports Server (NASA)

    Repository · 1 publications · 32 citations

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  5. Computer

    1 publications · 88 citations

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