Software Metrics: New Directions
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I will start by giving a lightening history of software metrics, explaining why almost all metrics activities can be traced to a couple of very simple technical objectives about resource and quality that are then wrapped up in standard statistical methods. The good news is that globally software metrics has provided some decent benchmarking information about software projects and locally has led in to managers having greater control over projects. The bad news is that traditional metrics and models don’t provide the kind of quantitative information that software managers have a right to expect. I am talking about information like:
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