A Note on Complexity and Understandability as Attributes for Assessing the Reusability of Software Components.

Using software metrics is one of the ways of evaluating and improving reusability of software components. Among other reusability aspects of a component, the Complexity/understandability aspect is crucial and needs to be assessed and managed. This reusability aspect can be assessed by measuring one of two overlapping reusability attributes: Complexity and understandability. We closely examine these two reusability attributes in this article, and issues that must be considered when making a choice between them are presented thereto.