Halstead complexity measures: Difference between revisions

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'''Halstead complexity measures''' are [[software metric]]s introduced by Maurice Howard Halstead in 1977.<ref>{{cite book |author=Halstead, Maurice H. |title=Elements of Software Science |publisher=Elsevier North-Holland, Inc. |___location=Amsterdam |year=1977 |isbn=0-444-00205-7}}</ref> These metrics are computed statically, without program execution.

== Calculation ==

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The difficulty measure is related to the difficulty of the program to write or understand, e.g. when doing [[code review]].

==References==

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== See also ==