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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
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“trivial,” 2 “simple,” 3 “moderate,” 4 “complex,” and 5 “incom-
prehensible.” What is the scale type for this denition of com-
plexity? How do you know? With this measure, how could you
meaningfully measure the average of a set of modules?
3. We commonly use ordinal measurement scales. For example, we can
use an ordinal scale to rank the understandability of programs as
trivial, simple, moderate, complex, or incomprehensible. For each of
the two other common measurement scale types, give an example
of a useful soware measure of that type. State exactly which so-
ware entity is being measured and which attribute. State whether the
entity is a product, process, or resource.
4. Dene measurement, and briey summa
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