They tested the impact of module size and strength (cohesion) on programming effort, measured as programmer hours per executable statement. They found that effort decreased as the size of the module increased.

The first metric is the average size in executable statements of a module's procedures (PROCSIZE).

Module length, in executable statements (MODLSIZE) was selected as the metric of module-level modularity [5].(3) The effect of this complexity metric is expected to depend on the application systems being analyzed.

In the current research the initial candidate metric chosen for branching was the proportion of the executable statements that were GOTO statements (GOTOSTMT).

Malicious codes (logic programs that contain executable statements) take various forms, including viruses, Trojan horses, worms and or logic bombs.

Results show that comparing with metrics such as Lines of code (LOC) and Cyclomatic complexity (V(G)) which are traditionally used for risk prediction, Halstead program difficulty (D), Number of executable statements (EXEC) and Halstead program volume (V) are the more effective metrics as risk predictors.

It was found when comparing with extracted metrics such as Lines of code (LOC) and Cyclomatic complexity (V(G)) which were traditionally used for risk prediction [8], [9] in this kind of software systems, Halstead program difficulty (D), Number of executable statements (EXEC) and Halstead program volume (V) were more useful.

Description: A count of the number of executable statements in the function.