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Computers General

Software Metrics and Software Metrology

by (author) Alain Abran

Publisher
Wiley
Initial publish date
Jun 2010
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780470597200
    Publish Date
    Jun 2010
    List Price
    $117.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781118029329
    Publish Date
    Nov 2010
    List Price
    $94.99

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Most of the software measures currently proposed to the industry bring few real benefits to either software managers or developers. This book looks at the classical metrology concepts from science and engineering, using them as criteria to propose an approach to analyze the design of current software measures and then design new software measures (illustrated with the design of a software measure that has been adopted as an ISO measurement standard). The book includes several case studies analyzing strengths and weaknesses of some of the software measures most often quoted. It is meant for software quality specialists and process improvement analysts and managers.

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Contributor Notes

ALAIN ABRAN, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec (Canada). Dr. Abran is a coeditor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and System Engineering. Dr. Abran has close to twenty years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering.

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