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Chapter 5
Software Metrics Data
Collection
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C 3 that measurements should be tied to an
organization, project, product and process goals, so that we know
what questions we are trying to answer with our measurement program.
Chapter 4 showed us how to frame questions as hypotheses, so that we
can perform measurement-based investigations to help us understand
the answers. But having the right measures is only part of a measurement
program. Soware measurement is only as good as the data that are col-
lected and analyzed. In other words, we cannot make good decisions with
bad data.
Data should be collected with a clear purpose in ...