Neto, Alvaro CostaPereira, Maria JoãoHenriques, Pedro Rangel2026-03-032026-03-032024Neto, Alvaro Costa: Pereira, Maria João Varanda; Henriques, Pedro Rangel (2024). Application of programming cocktails identity cards to development complexity analysis. In 23nd Belgium-Netherlands Software Evolution Workshop, BENEVOL 2024. p. 1-6.16130-073http://hdl.handle.net/10198/35923Complexity in software projects tends to grow considerably as resources and stakeholders raise in numbers. Several factors may contribute to this, ranging from miscommunication between developers, to excessive dependency on external libraries and frameworks. Consequently, managing both developers and the assets they use becomes increasingly hard as features are implemented and changes in linguistic characteristics and coding styles become necessary. This position paper presents Programming Cocktails, their Ingredients, and Resources, three basic software development management concepts. These three main concepts culminate in Programming Cocktails Identity Cards, an ontology-based modelling technique to aid in assessing, planning, and understanding how each development technology contributes—both positively and negatively—to several aspects of software development, such as cognitive burden, risk and cost.engProgramming cocktailsProgramming languagesDevelopment complexityCognitive analysisconference paper