It is intended for mature software development organizations striving for productive development process resulting in high quality products.
Code complexity has effect on how difficult it is to test and maintain.
How software complexity influences quality attributes and testing. With it you can very easily, with only a few mouse selections, measure your project, get the report and visit the source code. Halstead's estimated number of bugs B gives a goal on how many bugs at least the testers should try to find from a source file. More thorough statistical analysis of the measurements 2. The data contents of the reports can be further fine-tuned with command line options.