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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition
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Software Metrics, 3rd Edition

by Norman Fenton, James Bieman
October 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
617 pages
19h 10m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Software Metrics, 3rd Edition
The Basics of Measurement 45
mass and volume; we then use a model to show us that the relationship
between the three is
Density = Mass/Volume
Similarly, the speed of a moving object is most accurately measured
using direct measures of distance and time. us, direct measurement
forms the building blocks for our assessment, but many interesting attri-
butes can be measured only by derived measurement.
e following direct measures are commonly used in soware
engineering:
Size of source code (measured by LOC)
Schedule of the testing process (measured by elapsed time in hours)
Number of defects discovered (measured by counting defect ...
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ISBN: 9781439838228