An approach to understanding program comprehensibility using spatial complexity, concept assignment and typographical style

Abstract

This paper has briefly presented an approach to identifying the comprehensibility of a program and initial results from its application. The results obtained so far, indicate that this approach is useful in modelling the comprehensibility of a program as it evolves. However further work is required to calibrate this approach to more accurately reflect comprehensibility and to identify at what point corrective action should be undertaken to maintain the quality of the program.