Software Metrics and Software Metrology

Most of the software measures currently proposed to the industry bring few real benefits to either software managers or developers. This book looks at the classical metrology concepts from science and engineering, using them as criteria to propose an approach to analyze the design of current software measures and then design new software measures (illustrated with the design of a software measure that has been adopted as an ISO measurement standard). The book includes several case studies analyzing strengths and weaknesses of some of the software measures most often quoted. It is meant for software quality specialists and process improvement analysts and managers.

Alain Abran, PHD, is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at Ecole de technologie superieure, Universite du Quebec (Canada). Dr. Abran is a coeditor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and System Engineering. Dr. Abran has close to twenty years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering.

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
About the Author	p. xix
Key Concepts for the Design of Software Measures	p. 1
Introduction	p. 3
From Measurement Methods to Quantitative Models: A Measurement Context Model	p. 17
Metrology and Quality Criteria in Software Measurement	p. 47
Quantification and Measurement Are Not The Same!	p. 67
The Design of Software Measurement Methods	p. 99
Some Popular Software Measures: How Good Are They?	p. 129
Cyclomatic Complexity Number: Analysis of Its Design	p. 131
Halstead's Metrics: Analysis of Their Designs	p. 145
Function Points: Analysis of Their Design	p. 161
Use Case Points: Analysis of Their Design	p. 191
ISO 9126: Analysis of Quality Models and Measures	p. 205
The Design of Cosmic - ISO 19761	p. 229
Cosmic: Design of an Initial Prototype	p. 231
Cosmic: Scaling Up and Industrialization	p. 247
Other Issues in the Design of Software Measures	p. 267
Convertibility Across Measurement Methods	p. 269
Design of Standard Etalons: The Next Frontier in Software Measurement	p. 281
List of Acronyms	p. 297
Glossary of Terms in Software Measurement	p. 299
References	p. 305
Index	p. 313
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