In software engineering and development, a software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property...
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The ABC software metric was introduced by Jerry Fitzpatrick in 1997 to overcome the drawbacks of the LOC. The metric defines an ABC score as a triplet...
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Various software package metrics are used in modular programming. They have been mentioned by Robert Cecil Martin in his 2002 book Agile software development:...
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Cyclomatic complexity (redirect from McCabe Metric)
Cyclomatic complexity is a software metric used to indicate the complexity of a program. It is a quantitative measure of the number of linearly independent...
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Evaluation, is a set of metrics and a software package used for evaluating automatic summarization and machine translation software in natural language processing...
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Programming complexity (redirect from Software complexity)
Laws of Software Evolution. He and his co-author Les Belady explored numerous software metrics that could be used to measure the state of software, eventually...
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Look up metric or -metric in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Metric or metrical may refer to: Metric system, an internationally adopted decimal system...
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used software metrics, or measures, which are used to assist in determining the state of the software or the adequacy of the testing. A software testing...
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GQM (category Software metrics)
initialism for goal, question, metric, is an established goal-oriented approach to software metrics to improve and measure software quality. GQM has been promoted...
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the analysis of the software's inner structure, its source code (see Software metrics), at the unit level, and at the system level (sometimes referred to...
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as source codes, software metric data from measurements or from reverse engineering, traces that record execution behavior, software testing data (e.g...
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Coupling (computer programming) (redirect from Dependency (software))
of high readability and maintainability.[citation needed] The software quality metrics of coupling and cohesion were invented by Larry Constantine in...
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The OMG Structured Metrics Metamodel (SMM) specification defines a standard Metrics Metamodel. It is a publicly available specification from the Object...
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Efferent coupling (category Software metrics)
Efferent coupling is a coupling metric in software development. It measures the number of data types a class knows about. This includes inheritance, interface...
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Source lines of code (category Software metrics)
Source lines of code (SLOC), also known as lines of code (LOC), is a software metric used to measure the size of a computer program by counting the number...
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has impact on the quality of a software. Middleware Coupling (computer programming) Software quality Software metric "AMQP 0-9-1 Model Explained". RabbitMQ...
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makes the software affordable. Usage may be charged based on the number of users, transactions, amount of storage spaced used, or other metrics. Many buyers...
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Code coverage (category Software metrics)
lower chance of containing undetected software bugs compared to a program with low code coverage. Many different metrics can be used to calculate test coverage...
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proportional to the complexity of the code unit (e.g., single or combined software metrics). The ground area of a virtual 3D building can be proportional to the...
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metric that is useful in indicating software defects. Cyclomatic complexity Anti-pattern Computer program Computer programming Control flow Software engineering...
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Halstead complexity measures (redirect from Halstead's Software Science)
measures are software metrics introduced by Maurice Howard Halstead in 1977 as part of his treatise on establishing an empirical science of software development...
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analyzed against the code itself. These are called software metrics and including simple metrics, such as counting the number of lines in a single file...
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parameterized complexity on almost-trees, and has been applied in software metrics as part of the definition of cyclomatic complexity of a piece of code...
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analysis through an array of visuals, documentation, and metric tools. It was built to help software developers comprehend, maintain, and document their source...
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Cohesion (computer science) (category Software metrics)
cohesion often correlates with loose coupling, and vice versa. The software metrics of coupling and cohesion were invented by Larry Constantine in the...
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University of London. He is known for his work in software metrics and is the author of the textbook Software Metrics: A Rigorous Approach, as of 2014 in its third...
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In software engineering, cycle time is a software metric which estimates development speed in (agile) software projects. The cycle time measures how long...
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Duplicate code (category Software metrics)
aware of such copies. Refactoring duplicate code can improve many software metrics, such as lines of code, cyclomatic complexity, and coupling. This may...
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four metrics: sales, profit, assets, and market value. The Forbes list for software companies includes only pure play (or nearly pure play) software companies...
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Turski (1997). "Metrics and laws of software evolution—the nineties view" (PDF). Proc. 4th International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS '97). pp. 20–32...
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