Software measurement / edited by Austin Melton.
Contributor(s): Melton, Austin
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BookPublisher: London : International Thomson Computer Press, c1996Description: xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 1850321787 .Subject(s): Computer software -- Quality control | Software engineering -- StandardsDDC classification: 005.14 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 005.14 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00009708 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
"This book brings together work of some of the highest authorities in the field of software measurement and software metrics." "It has three main aims: To provide a history of software metrics; to provide a formal foundation for software measurement and software metrics; and to increase the applications of software metrics and to study the development of metrics for non-imperative languages, for example object-oriented and logic-based languages, and for non-code documents, such as specification documents." "Intended for academic and professional researchers as well as students of software engineering, Software Measurement offers a framework within which current and future work in software measurement can be effectively and reliably understood and completed. Readers will gain a more comprehensive understanding of software and the discipline behind it, i.e., software engineering, and thus be better able to create and maintain more complex and efficient software."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-237) and index.
Introduction -- The early days of software metrics: Looking back after 20 years -- Measurement theory and software measurement -- Fundamental issues in software measurement -- Integrating process and measurement -- Metric development for object-oriented software -- Analysis and Measurement techniques for logic-based languages -- Statistics and software metrics -- The role of recursion and symmetry in the design and analysis of software metrics -- Axiomatic Validation in the software metric development process -- Software metric specifications -- The empirical basis for software engineering.