Q. What is the difference between the complexity of a problem and the complexity of the computation performed?

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Q. What are the two classes of software attributes considered in measuring software complexity?

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Q. What is the purpose of measuring software complexity in quantitative terms?

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Q. What is a size-based complexity metric?

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Q. What is a structure-based complexity metric?

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Q. What is the easiest way to measure software size?

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Q. What is the ideal size of a module according to (Weinberg, 1971)?

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Q. Why is a module suggested to contain at most 7 elements?

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Q. What is the main problem associated with using the number of lines of code as a complexity metric?

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Q. What does Halstead's method, also known as 'software science', use to overcome the problems associated with metrics based on a direct count of lines of code?

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Q. Why is the number seven used as a limit for the number of elements per module?

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Q. What is the main drawback of using the number of lines of code as a complexity metric?

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Q. What is Halstead's work known for?

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Q. What is the second class of intra-modular complexity metrics based on?

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Q. What is the complexity metric based on the use of data structures concerned with?

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Q. What is the best-known complexity metric from the class of structure-based complexity metrics?

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Q. What does McCabe base his complexity metric on?

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Q. What is the formula for McCabe's cyclomatic complexity?

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Q. What does the cyclomatic complexity of a program depict?

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Q. What is the suggested limit of cyclomatic complexity by McCabe?

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