Title: A proposed additional property to the Weyuker's existing properties

Authors: Sanjay Misra, A.K. Misra

Addresses: United College of Engineering and Research, Naini, Allahabad, India; Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India. ' United College of Engineering and Research, Naini, Allahabad, India; Motilal Nehru National Institute of Technology, Allahabad, India

Abstract: The existing Weyuker|s properties as they stand do not account for the programming language. So there is a need to add more properties to the list, which will address the language of a program. If we compute the same function in a different language, the complexity of the program should be the same, a concern which is not yet addressed by any of the existing Weyuker properties. For this purpose a new property to tackle this problem is proposed. This paper attempts to establish this property as useful in evaluating the complexity of a program.

Keywords: Weyuker|s properties; software complexity; cycolmatic number; cognitive weights; cognitive complexity; programming language.

DOI: 10.1504/IJITM.2006.008714

International Journal of Information Technology and Management, 2006 Vol.5 No.1, pp.66 - 76

Published online: 18 Jan 2006 *

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