
21Introduction
For example, a measure is the number of failures experienced during testing. Measurement
is the way of recording such failures. A software metric may be the average number of
failures experienced per hour during testing.
Fenton and Peeger (1996) has dened measurement as:
It is the process by which numbers or symbols are assigned to attributes of entities in
the real world in such a way as to describe them according to clearly dened rules.
TABLE 1.3
Software Quality Attributes
Functionality: The degree to which the purpose of the software is satisfied
1 Completeness The degree to which the software is complete
2 Correctness The degree ...