New approach reveals hidden complexity of software systems, revolutionizing quality assurance.
The article explores how to understand and measure the complexity of software systems using complex network theory. Instead of just looking at individual parts of the software, the researchers used a new approach that considers the software as a whole. By building software networks from the source code, they were able to analyze the internal complexity of software systems. The study introduced a SCANT approach that combines software structure analysis with complex network theory to better understand the complexity of software systems.