A Synthesis of Software Science Measures and the Cyclomatic Number

In examining the software science family of software complexity measures and the cyclomatic number software complexity measure, one quickly makes the following observations. There are characteristics of a program which affect its complexity and which a software science measure can detect and measure but the cyclomatic number cannot, and likewise there are characteristics which the cyclomatic number can detect and measure but the software science measures cannot. Thus, one would like to define a measure or a family of measures which are sensitive to the software characteristics measured by the software science measures and which are also sensitive to the characteristics measured by the cylomatic number. In this paper we present such a family of measures; these new measures are called weighted measures.