18 ◾ Software Metrics
• Management by metrics
• Evaluation of methods and tools
Each of these activities will be covered in some detail. Our theoretical
foundations, to be described in Chapters 2 and 3, will enable us to con-
sider the activities in a unied manner, rather than as diverse, unrelated
topics.
e following brief introduction will give you a sense of the techniques
currently in use for each facet of measurement. It provides signposts to
where the material is covered in detail.
1.3.1 Cost and Effort Estimation
Managers provided the original motivation for deriving and using so-
ware measures. ey wanted to be able to predict project costs during early
phases in the soware life cycle. As a result, numerous models for soware ...