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ese examples show us that it takes all types of attributes and metrics—
process, product, and resource—to understand and evaluate soware
development.
3.4 SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT VALIDATION
e very large number of soware measures in the literature aims to capture
information about a wide range of attributes. Even when you know which
entity and attribute you want to assess, there are many measures from which
to choose. Finding the best measure for your purpose can be dicult, as can-
didates measure or predict the same attribute (such as cost, size or complexity)
in very dierent ways. So ...