It can be argued that the quality of software management has an effect on the degree of success or failure of a software development program. We have developed a metric for measuring the quality of software management along four dimensions: requirements management, estimation/planning management, people management, and risk management. The quality management metric (QMM) for a software developm...

Quality assurance via metrics and quality models in conceptual modelling and design for software and data or knowledge bases has always been of a major concern for software, systems and database developers. Given the inherent difficulty of suggesting as objective as possible design metrics, this paper discusses a theoretical framework for software design metrics, which conceives parameters as d...

In this paper, axiomatic testing of software metrics will be described, The testing is based on representation axiomsjfom the measurement theory. In a case study, the axioms are given for the formal relational structure and the empirical relational structure. 'livo approaches of axiomatic testing are elaborated: deterministic and probabilistic testing.

Reliability of software counts on its fault-prone modules. This means that the less software consists of fault-prone units the more we may trust it. Therefore, if we are able to predict the number of fault-prone modules of software, it will be possible to judge the software reliability. In predicting software fault-prone modules, one of the contributing features is software metric by which one ...

Software complexity metrics are used to predict critical information about reliability and maintainability of software systems. Object oriented software development requires a different approach to software complexity metrics. In this paper, we propose a metric to compute the structural and cognitive complexity of class by associating a weight to the class, called as Weighted Class Complexity (...

A bridge role metric model is put forward in this paper. Compared with previous metric models, our solution of a large-scale object-oriented software system as a complex network is inherently more realistic. To acquire nodes and links in an undirected network, a new model that presents the crucial connectivity of a module or the hub instead of only centrality as in previous metric models is pre...

This paper focuses on enhancing software quality in students’ programs. To this end, related work is reviewed and proposals for applying pedagogical software metrics in programming courses are presented. Specifically, we present the main advantages and disadvantages of using pedagogical software metrics, as well as some proposals for utilizing features already built in contemporary programming ...

People demand for software quality is growing increasingly, thus different scales for the software are growing fast to handle the quality of software. The software complexity metric is one of the measurements that use some of the internal attributes or characteristics of software to know how they effect on the software quality. In this paper, we cover some of more efficient software complexity ...

Software engineering is one of the dominant areas for Computer Science researchers. It is difficult to cover the complete aspects of any domain in a single review paper. Software metric is an important concept that is used to determine the performance, cost and efficiency of different aspects related to software development process. In this paper, I have tried to demonstrate the research relate...

This paper describes a position about use of the Personal Software Process (PSP) metrics that was presented in the workshop: "Software Metrics: Views from Education, Research, and Training". The position presented here, describes how and why PSP metrics can be used in teaching and learning about software engineering.