322 software Quality assuranCe
Metrics and Models
• Applying a metric to a product results in a data item.
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A
pplying a set of metrics to a product and applying them
throughout the course of the development results in a data set.
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A m
odel uses metric data as input and produces another met-
ric as output.
Model Development and Independent Metrics
• Model development research drives metric definition in this
sense.
• But work in the development of generic software metrics has
progressed independently and comprehensively.
• Such that now model developers can design their models to
incorporate existing metrics.
e Issue of Availability
• As software metrics become standardized, the software engi-
neering community has access to more complete and consis ...