Design of a Cognitive Complexities Measurement and Analysis Tool

The complexities of software systems are more prominent now than ever, due to progression of simple software applications to large integrated systems, either centralized or distributed. The challenges to software engineer somehow to understand and manage such large software systems and deal with software cognitive complexities. Although there are research areas such as human machine interface or human factor engineering, there is still little research on how to quantitatively measure and analyze human cognitive complexities in comprehending and understanding complex software systems. This paper studies human interaction with software programs in the cognitive perspective on software complexity. Based on the findings, a pilot software cognitive complexity measurement and analyses tool (CCMAT) is presented

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