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Software engineering

code measures built from counts of distinct and total operators and operands, such as program volume, difficulty and effort.

In software engineering, Halstead complexity measures refers to code measures built from counts of distinct and total operators and operands, such as program volume, difficulty and effort. This meaning comes from Halstead (1977) in Elements of software science.[1]

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References

Halstead, M. H. (1977). Elements of software science. Elsevier. ISBN 9780444002051

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