An Empirical Study of the Relationships between Code Readability and Software Complexity

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Code readability and software complexity are important software quality metrics that impact other software metrics such as maintainability, reusability, portability and reliability.

• This paper presents an empirical study of the relationships between code readability and program complexity.
• The results are derived from an analysis of 35 Java programs that cover 23 distinct code constructs.
• The analysis includes six readability metrics and two complexity metrics.