Affiliation:
1. Technische Universität Berlin, Frantdinstraβe 28/29, D - 1 Berlin 10 (West.Germany)
2. Technische Universität Berlin, Franklinstraβe 28/29, D- 1 Berlin 10 (West-Germany)
Abstract
Over the last decade many software metrics have been introduced by researchers and many software tools have been developed using software metrics to measure the "quality" of programs. These metrics for measuring productivity, reliability, maintainability, and complexity, for example, are vital to software development planning and management. In this paper a new approach is presented to describe the properties of the software metrics and their scales using measurement theory. Methods are shown to describe a software complexity metric as an ordinal, an interval or a ratio scale. The use of this concept is shown by application to the Metric of McCabe. These results are very important for selecting appropriate software metrics for software measurement and for developing tools which use software metrics to evaluate the "quality" of software.
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Subject
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design,Software
Cited by
26 articles.
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