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	Software metric - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A software metric is a measure of some property of a piece of software or its specifications.
		The assessment of "how much" software there is in a program, especially making prediction of such prior to the detail design, is very difficult to satisfactorily define or measure.
		The practical utility of software metrics has thus been limited to narrow domains where the measurement process can be stabilized.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Software_metric (485 words)

	Metrics: Problem Solved? - Dec 97 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		here is a growing opinion within the metrics industry (the proponents of software metrics and the authors of software metric literature) that the issues of software metrics have been resolved.
		Metrics are indicators of process or product qualities that are not directly measurable, and if not addressed by metrics, are subjective and intangible.
		Any metric strategy must be based on an underlying process model or system dynamic; otherwise, there is the risk of employing incompatible or conflicting strategies to achieve the goal.
	www.stsc.hill.af.mil /crosstalk/1997/12/metrics.asp (2112 words)

	Complexity (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Metrics have been created for measuring various aspects of complexity such as sheer size, control flow, data structures, and intermodule structure.
		Henry and Kafura's metric is one of the first of a family addressing design complexity, the complexity embedded in connections among modules.
		Intuitively, the metric is the number of connected regions in a flowchart, for a subroutine with one entrance and one exit.
	www.dacs.dtic.mil /techs/baselines/complexity.html (732 words)

	Software Planning Metrics Plan.
		It identifies the software planning measurement activities, the organization and the responsibilities of the groups and individuals responsible, the resources required, and data collection, analysis and reporting procedures.
		Software estimates are documented for use in planning and tracking the software project.
		Such metrics will be referred to in analyses for the purposes of generation and validation of a metric estimate.
	sern.ucalgary.ca /courses/seng/621/W97/johnf/metplan.htm#WHO (4802 words)

	Software Engineering Baselines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Software managers typically tracked software bugs even before software reliability concepts were explicitly formalized.
		Software reliability models, which relate failure data to a statistical model of the software failure process, are used to specify, predict, estimate, and assess the reliability of software systems.
		Software will be changed during system test to remove faults uncovered by operating the system.
	www.dacs.dtic.mil /techs/baselines/reliability.html (2126 words)

	R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc.
		Software measurement is an emerging field of software engineering, since it may provide support for planning, controlling, and improving the software development process, as needed in any industrial development process.
		A metrics suite design is presented that supports previously unsupported qualities of high quality metrics, and it is concluded that object-oriented design has a particular affinity to the development of a high quality metrics suite.
		New metrics were derived for vendor-delivered code to measure the degree of risk associated with a variety of test case failures such as functionality not enabled, bad fixes, and defects not fixed during successive iterations.
	www.rspa.com /reflib/ProductMetrics.html (4065 words)

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		Software measurement is an indispensable aid whenever decisions have to be made.
		Software that is developed with an eye towards reducing complexity will usually be much easier to maintain during the years after delivery.
		A great deal of software dies before its time simply due to entropy, the gradual degradation of the code's structure as corrections and enhancements are made.
	www.molalla.net /~setlabs/pcmetric.html (1563 words)

	Top 10 Software Metric Relationships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Finding and fixing a software problem after delivery costs 100 times more than finding and fixing the problem in early design phases.
		Software development and maintenance costs are primarily a function of No. of SLOC.
		Software systems and products typically cost 3 times as much per SLOC as individual software programs.
	sunset.usc.edu /classes/cs577a_99/lectures/01/sld031.htm (128 words)

	WHY SOFTWARE METRIC PROGRAMS FAIL
		Software metrics is something that few organizations do effectively despite the availability of a good deal of academic information on the subject.
		This establishes the basic objectives of metrics and that understanding motivation from a decision-making perspective is the key to success or failure.
		For software metrics to be deployed effectively, they must be approached like any other technical project, starting with requirements/objectives and translating this into a design approach, detailed design, and deployment strategy that is integrated with the larger environment in which it exists.
	www.uces.csulb.edu /SPIN/flyer042602.htm (445 words)

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		Software metrics is fast becoming a critical field for helping to produce software on-time and on-budget.
		When software metrics are used in the development stage, quality is increased by catching errors early, thus significantly reducing the cost for test and maintenance.
		The weighting coefficient associated with a metric is proportional to the metric's importance in the evaluation of the criterion.
	www.cs.ttu.edu /fase/v8n06.txt (6741 words)

	Mark Miller - Feelin' the need, the need for a new software metric
		I'm getting the strong feeling that available software metrics out there are pretty weak at quickly calculating the complexity, and hence, the cost of maintenance, of the software we create.
		The range of possible values for each metric is represented by a line running from the center of the diagram (the min value for that metric, usually zero) to the outside edge.
		Depending on the metrics you've selected to chart, their positions on the Kiviat chart, and the relative severity of one metric violation to that of its neighbors, you can get wildly-varying shapes for the exact same data.
	www.doitwith.net /PermaLink.aspx?guid=b9592d36-0d94-4cf4-a182-25626385c77f (872 words)

	Software Defect Metric
		For example, a defect which is caused by interaction with the operating system is different than a defect which is caused by an internal calculation.
		My personal belief is that the correct metric scales the reported defects to the size and complexity of the program area affected.
		A similar approach is to look at the percentage of code which has changed in a particular release and then scale the number of defects reported using that.
	software.isixsigma.com /forum/showmessage.asp?messageID=133 (343 words)

	Software Download: Metric
		This software is provided as freeware and is available for download free of charge.
		The calculation is intended for the purposes of geometric and strength designs of helical tension cylindrical springs made of wires and rods of circular sections, loaded with static loading.
		ComfortAir HVAC software is designed to be used by engineers, architects, contractors and energy auditors to calculate and analyse heating and air conditioning loads in commercial buildings.
	www.sharewareconnection.com /titles/metric.htm (2566 words)

	Video Quality Metric (VQM) Software Download (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The Collaborator is expected to provide evaluation of the NTIA/ITS VQM Software that is supplied under this Agreement, and through this evaluation will contribute to improvements and enhancements of future versions of the VQM Software.
		The VQM Software that is supplied under this Agreement is intended for individual use by the Collaborator only.
		Use of the VQM Software by the Collaborator's organization will require a research or commercial license agreement for the Licensed Patents in Paragraph 1, executed by a company official.
	www.its.bldrdoc.gov /n3/video/vqmdownload_US.htm (1214 words)

	Untitled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This paper proposes some code-based software metrics which appear to be related to product functionality, and describes a program of investigation to validate the ability of the metrics to serve as a "proxy" for the function points metric.
		For instance, we recently measured the Software Science Effort for a small collection of programs written in C by individual graduate students using PC-METRIC, a commercial software metric analyzer [SET 1987].
		This new metric appears to be suitable for use as a Function Point proxy for existing code assets.
	www.cs.pdx.edu /~warren/Papers/FP_PR.htm (1305 words)

	A Software Metric Combination Model for Software Reuse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Software reuse is an important approach to increase software quality and productivity.
		In a software reuse procedure, extracting the software components with high reuse potential and high quality is a key step that may directly affect the steps that follow.
		Therefore, the software metrics shall be combined, and the conflict situations in metric combination should be reduced.
	csdl.computer.org /comp/proceedings/apsec/1998/9183/00/91830070abs.htm (222 words)

	Brainmetric Software
		We develop software for the assessment of cognitive abilities.
		We also offer educational software in the areas of Clinical Neuropsychology and Neurological Illnesses.
		The assessment software was designed for psychologists to measure abilities such as attention, motor function and memory.
	www.brainmetric.com (156 words)

	The Software Metric
		Distance from the centre of a circle to a line: Click three points on the circumference and the software calculates the distance to the line, likewise pre-selected by two mouse clicks, at a 90° angle.
		In sub-item "Radius" the software calculates the radius of the circle, again after marking three points on the circumference.
		The Metric measuring software is being constantly further developed.
	www.m-service.de /seiten/gb/gb_sw_metric.html (1218 words)

	Software Metric Management Information System (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The most significant impact of the new software T&E policy on the Army software development process is the Army Software Metrics Program.
		Metrics shall be collected during development and maintenance of all Army software, including Automated Information Systems and Mission Critical Computer Resources.
		The most significant benefits of SMMIS to an Army manager are to provide a local repository for metrics data and to create the standard output reports and graphical data displays which are recommended by Chapter 17.
	www.softwaretechnews.com /summer94/smmis.html (611 words)

	Estimating Software has metric and currency conversions., Estimating Systems, Inc.
		Software is available for public or private sector use, is GSA approved, and is available for use in Windows® 95/98/2000 NT and XP operating systems.
		The software is used at military bases and government agencies and by independent contractors working with these facilities.
		Jul 21, 2004 - On-Screen Takeoff Software is digitizerless.
	news.thomasnet.com /fullstory/10623/2585 (916 words)

	Computer Base Training
		The objective of the ASM CBT is to teach the fundamental Army software metric concepts, and use and interpretation of the data.
		The data elements needed for each metric and the algorithms that compute derived metric values are clearly described.
		Metrics Guided Risk Management (MGRM) is a computer-based tutorial that provides an introduction on using the Army metrics in identifying risk in programs that require intensive software development.
	www.armysoftwaremetrics.org /support/cbt.asp (355 words)

	Technology Transfer
		The VQM software you are about to download is protected by three United States Patents (see below) and one pending United States Patents (not shown below).
		Before downloading the VQM software, you will be required to provide your name, company (if applicable), address, email, and phone number, and to accept a no-cost evaluation license agreement.
		This agreement prohibits you from selling and redistributing the software and stipulates that the software may only be used for research applications (i.e., experimental or developmental noncommercial activities where no direct financial benefit is being derived).
	www.its.bldrdoc.gov /n3/video/vqmsoftware.htm (829 words)

	Software Process Automation
		Metric data can be exported to an ASCII file or the spreadsheet formats comma-separated-value or tab-separated-value.
		Continuus can be used by software engineers, project managers, quality control engineers, technical writer and other team members to control not only software but also related data such as documentation and designs.
		The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the U.S. Department of Defense and operated by Carnegie Mellon University.
	www.sei.cmu.edu /legacy/procauto/commercial.products.html (1119 words)

	A Software Metric System for Module Coupling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In this paper, we extend previous work to reflect newer programming languages, and quantify coupling by developing a general software metric system that allows us to automatically measure coupling.
		We have precisely defined the levels of coupling so that they can be determined algorithmically, incorporated the notion of direction into the coupling levels, and accounted for different types of non-local variables present in modern programming languages.
		We have implemented our metric system so that it measures the coupling between pairs of procedures in arbitrary C programs and have analyzed several well-used systems of various sizes.
	www.isse.gmu.edu /faculty/ofut/rsrch/abstracts/mj-coupling.html (190 words)

	NIST Metric Information and Conversions: Metric Conversion Programs/Tools (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		All links to metric conversion software programs have been removed and NIST will not accept requests to add links to the metric website.
		We are not able to maintain an accurate list of all the metric converters available, nor can we maintain the accuracy of the web links or provide any assurances regarding the accuracy, rounding, or results of any program, nor perform a fair evaluation of their performance or features.
		If you are using software to make conversions that are critical to your application, especially those in trade or commerce, you should determine if the program uses the appropriate conversion factors and that it rounds the values accurately and appropriately for your application (e.g., so that the final quantity is not overstated).
	ts.nist.gov /ts/htdocs/200/202/mpo_reso.htm (291 words)

	Metric Conversion Software
		Application supports Imperial and Metric units, is based on ANSI, ISO, DIN standards and support many 2D and 3D CAD systems.
		ComfortAir HVAC software is designed to be used by engineers, architects, contractors and energy auditors for calculating and analysing heating and air conditioning hourly loads in all types of buildings.
		Application contain a database of belts, supports Imperial and Metric units, is based on ANSI, RMA, ISO, DIN and BS standards and support many 2D and 3D CAD systems.
	www.programurl.com /software/metric-conversion3.htm (1121 words)

	Software metrics and static analysis
		The aim of METKIT is to raise awareness and increase usage of software metrics within European industry by producing educational material aimed to both industrial and academics audiences.
		So far the only metrics I have seen documented are counting metrics, such as number of methods per class, number of classes, number of messages per class, etc. I am looking for a complexity metric similar to McCabe's for functional programming.
		MOI is the ultimate metric for a commercial software project.
	www.cs.queensu.ca /Software-Engineering/archive/static.html (4669 words)

	Drilling Software, Mud Engineering Software, Metric Mud Engineering Software, Drilling Company Software, Drilling ...
		All of our drilling software programs are written in Microsoft Excel for use by Mud Engineers, Drilling Consultants, Drilling Engineers, and Toolpushers working in the oilfield industry.
		Depending on his typing speed the Mud Engineer may count his product sacks, complete the chemical mud check, sit down at the computer and in 5 to 10 minutes be printing and emailing his mud report.
		The software programs for the Company Man, Toolpusher and Driller, and the Drilling Engineer were also written for ease of use and make all the engineering calculations required of these persons painless and simple.
	www.drillingsoftware.us (802 words)

	Software metric (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Since quantitative methods have proved so powerful in the othersciences, computer science practitioners and theoreticians haveworked hard to bring similar approaches to software development.Tom DeMarco stated, "You cannot control what you cannot measure" in Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation ISBN 0-131-71711-1.
		The assessment of "how much" software there is in a program,especially making prediction of such prior to the detail design, is very difficult to satisfactorily define or measure.
		metrics has thus been limited to narrow domains where themeasurement process can be stabilised.
	www.1stcustomsoftware.com /Software_metric-475.html (491 words)

	software metric - OneLook Dictionary Search (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Tip: Click on the first link on a line below to go directly to a page where "software metric" is defined.
		software metric : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
		software metric : FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=software+metric (94 words)

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