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Chapter 1
Measurement
What Is It and Why Do It?
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essential component of good soware
engineering. Many of the best soware developers measure charac-
teristics of their soware to get some sense of whether the requirements
are consistent and complete, whether the design is of high quality, and
whether the code is ready to be released. Eective project managers mea-
sure attributes of processes and products to be able to tell when so-
ware will be ready for delivery and whether a budget will be exceeded.
Organizations use process evaluation measurements to select soware
suppliers. Informed customers measure the aspec