
8 ◾ Software Metrics
entities and attributes, making soware engineering as powerful as other
engineering disciplines. Even when it is not clear how we might measure
an attribute, the act of proposing such measures will open a debate that
leads to greater understanding. Although some soware engineers may
continue to claim that important soware attributes like dependability,
quality, usability, and maintainability are simply not quantiable, we pre-
fer to try to use measurement to advance our understanding of them.
We can learn strategies for measuring unmeasurable attributes from the
business community. Businesses oen need to measure intang ...