Software Engineering like all other engineering professions has metrics and Software metrics are increasingly playing a central role in the planning and control of software development projects [2]. A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications. These can be used to take meaningful and useful managerial and technical decisions related to cost, effo...

The creations of models are essential for many knowledge disciplines to explain expected results. Modelling concept is well accepted in software engineering discipline. However, there is still a lacking integration of software process modelling and software process measurement by software engineers. This paper aims to portray the idea and result of integrating measurement in software process mo...

A prototype reverse engineering environment has been built to support understanding an existing Java software. The static software artifacts and their dependencies are extracted from Java byte code and viewed with Rigi reverse engineering environment as a nested graph. Several software metric values can be calculated from the byte code and analyzed with Rigi. The metric values can be used to st...

Software metrics and fault data are collected during the software development cycle. A typical software defect prediction model is trained using this collected data. Therefore the quality and characteristics of the underlying software metrics play an important role in the efficacy of the prediction model. However, superfluous software metrics often exist. Identifying a small subset of metrics b...