S. D. Conte
Abstract
Halstead in his Theory of Software Science, proposed that in the Fortran language, each occurrence of a GOTO i for different label i's be counted as a unique operator. Several writers have questioned the wisdom of this method of counting GOTO's. In this paper, we investigate the effect of counting GOTO's as several occurrences of a single unique operator on various software science metrics. Some 412 modules from the International Mathematical and Statistical Libraries (IMSL) are used as the data base for this study.
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- On the effect of different counting rules for control flow operators on Software Science metrics in Fortran
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