Software Design/Complexity (high-level quality)
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Complexity as a high-level code quality is defined by John Ousterhout in A Philosopy of Software Design as "anything related to the structure of a software system that makes it hard to understand and modify the system."[1] It is derived from the following qualities:
- Complexity as a primary quality
- Steepness of learning curve
- Interface size and its conceptual weight
- Naturality
- Code clarity
- Code size
- Easiness of change
- And other qualities.
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- ↑ Ousterhout, John (2018). A Philosophy of Software Design. ISBN 978-1732102200. Chapter 2.1 "Complexity defined"