Glossary Term

Complexity

1. (Apparent) the degree to which a system or component has a design or implementation that is difficult to understand and verify [IEEE 90].
2. (Inherent) the degree of complication of a system or system component, determined by such factors as the number and intricacy of interfaces, the number and intricacy of conditional branches, the degree of nesting, and the types of data structures [Evans 87].