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Chapter 8
Measuring Internal
Product Attributes
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this book laid the groundwork for measuring and
evaluating soware products, processes, and resources. Now, we turn
to the actual measurement, to see which metrics we can use and how they
are applied to soware engineering problems. In the remaining chap-
ters, we look at the products themselves. Here and in Chapter 9, we focus
on internal product attributes; Chapters 10 and 11 will turn to external
attributes.
We saw in Chapter 3 that internal product attributes describe soware
products (including documents) in a way that is dependent only on the
product itself. e most ...