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8.6 APPLICATIONS OF SIZE MEASURES
Size measures are useful for quantifying many soware attributes of inter-
est. Here we look at three areas where size is useful: to normalize measures
of other attributes, to quantify the amount of reuse, and to measure attri-
butes related to soware testing.
8.6.1 Using Size to Normalize Other Measurements
Besides indicating the size of soware entities, the most common use of
soware size measures is to normalize measures of other attributes. For
example, Chapters 1 through 6 introduced the commonly used soware
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