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in good soware engineering.
Measurement is used to assess situations, track progress, evaluate eec-
tiveness, and more. But the gap between how we do measure and how we
could measure remains larger than it should be. A key reason for this gap
between potential and practice was the lack of a coordinated, comprehen-
sive framework for understanding and using measurement. e rigorous
measurement framework introduced by the highly successful rst edition
of Soware Metrics: A Rigorous Approach in 1991 and second edition of
Soware Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach in 1997 has helped
to advance ...