Zuse's textbook on software measurement provides basic principles as well as theoretical and practical guidelines for the use of numerous kinds of software measures. It is written to enable scientists, teachers, practit ioners, and students to define the basic terminology of Software Measurement and to contribute to theory building. The textbook considers, among other, qualitative and numerical models behind software measures. It explains step-by-step the importance of qualitative properties, the meaning of scale types, the foundations of the validation of measures, and the foundations of prediction models, the models behind the Function-Point method and the COCOMO model, and the qualitative assumption of object-oriented measures. For applications of software measures in practice more than two hundred software measures of the software life-cycle are described in detail (object-oriented measures included). The enclosed CD contains a selection of more than 1,600 references of literature, and a small demo version of ZD-MIS (Zuse/Drabe - Measurement Information System) is presented.
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A thoughtful and skeptical approach to measurement,
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Too much of what has been written about software measurement has been fluff, noncritical acceptance of case study data, or mathematical armwaving. This is a sophisticated treatment of what should be a controversial field.
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This is a serious, exhaustive treatment of software measurement. There are chapters on the history and foundations of software measurement, including concepts from general measurement theory, and much more. A serious mathematical background is required to fully understand some parts of the book. Not for the casual reader. However, good returns may come to those who do make the necessary time investment. Weakness: English seems to be the author's second language. The writing style may not appeal to some readers.
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For more than fifty years computers have played a more and more important role in our life. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
additive ratio scale, software measurement area, additive combination rule, algebraic difference structure, modified extensive structure, measurement theoretic view, external variable costs, arbitrary flowgraphs, empirical relational system, same weak order, numerical relational system, package depiction, weak commutativity, partial monotonicity, software measures, structure chart method, aggregated complexity, dominance axiom, certain scale type, software complexity measures, minimal viewpoint, weak associativity, highest scale level, measurement theoretic approach, new measurement structures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Solution of Exercise, Measure Defect-Density, Weyuker's Property, Unadjusted Count, Measures of Bowles, Kendall Tau, Measures of Henry, Solutions of Exercises, Weyuker Property, Mean Time, Model of Kriz, Norman Schneidewind, Barry Boehm, Complex Processing, Desirable Attributes of Effective Measures, Distributed Functions, End-User Efficiency, Facilitate Change, General Systems Characteristics, Installation Ease, Logical Cohesion, Multiple Sites, Number Of Successors, On-line Update, On-Line-Data Entry New!
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additive ratio scale, software measurement area, additive combination rule, algebraic difference structure, modified extensive structure, measurement theoretic view, external variable costs, arbitrary flowgraphs, empirical relational system, same weak order, numerical relational system, package depiction, weak commutativity, partial monotonicity, software measures, structure chart method, aggregated complexity, dominance axiom, certain scale type, software complexity measures, minimal viewpoint, weak associativity, highest scale level, measurement theoretic approach, new measurement structures Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Solution of Exercise, Measure Defect-Density, Weyuker's Property, Unadjusted Count, Measures of Bowles, Kendall Tau, Measures of Henry, Solutions of Exercises, Weyuker Property, Mean Time, Model of Kriz, Norman Schneidewind, Barry Boehm, Complex Processing, Desirable Attributes of Effective Measures, Distributed Functions, End-User Efficiency, Facilitate Change, General Systems Characteristics, Installation Ease, Logical Cohesion, Multiple Sites, Number Of Successors, On-line Update, On-Line-Data Entry New!
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- Soft Computing in Software Engineering (Studies in Fuzziness and Soft Computing) by Ernesto Damiani on page 96, and page 273
- Metrics For Software Conceptual Models by Marcela Genero on page 235, and page 271
- OOIS 2000: 6th International Conference on Object Oriented Information Systems, 18 - 20 December 2000, London, UK. Proceedings by Dilip Patel on page 400, and page 425
- Information and Database Quality (Advances in Database Systems) by Mario G. Piattini on page 43, and page 83
- Advanced Information Systems Engineering: 13th International Conference, CAiSE 2001, Interlaken, Switzerland, June 4-8, 2001. Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) by Klaus R. Dittrich on page 401
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