Abstract
In recent years, the increased concern for developing reliable, cost-efficient software systems has been accompanied by a higher need to analyze and measure software complexity. Numerous metrics have been proposed to measure software complexity and functionality. Yet, testing the validity of these metrics has been a difficult and long process. As an initial test of metric validity, some researchers have suggested the use of formal metric properties so that metrics without a sound theoretical base are rejected right away. This approach has the additional advantage of allowing a reasonable and fair comparison of software metrics.
In this study, a discussion of formal and also, qualitative metric properties will be presented. A set of product metrics will be evaluated in terms of these metric properties and applicability of this kind of analysis to functionality metrics will be inquired.
Recommended Citation
Dengi, Tuliz and Zobrist, George, "An Analysis of Product Metrics in Terms of Qualitative and Formal Metric Properties" (1992). Computer Science Technical Reports. 145.
https://scholarsmine.mst.edu/comsci_techreports/145
Department(s)
Computer Science
Report Number
CSc-92-22
Document Type
Technical Report
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
Rights
© 1992 University of Missouri - Rolla, All rights reserved
Publication Date
15 September, 1992
Comments
The first Author is a Graduate Student.
This report is substantially the M.S. thesis of the first author, completed Fall 1992.