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MEASUREMENT – SOME QUOTATIONS

 Count what is countable. Measure what is measurable. And what is not


measurable, make measurable (Galileo Gallilei)
 A science is as mature as its measurement tools (Louis Pasteur)
 In God we trust. All others bring data (W. Edwards Deming)
 Measurement is an excellent abstraction mechanism for learning what
works and what doesn’t (Victor Basili)
 Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that
counts can be counted (Albert Einstein)

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POSITIONING OF SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT
Modeling

Real world of Formal models


Selection and Simulation,
Software - Processes
implementation Measurement,
Engineering - Products
of decisions Analysis
- Resources

Decision Support

 (Software) Measurement is the process by which values are assigned to


attributes of entities in the real (software) world.
 A measure (or metric) of an attribute associates a value (either numbers
or symbols) to each entity, in such a way that our knowledge/intuition
about the attribute is not contradicted.
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Can anybody name any
software metric?

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CODE CHURN

 Code churn represents the


number of lines of code
that were modified,
added or deleted in a
specified period of time. If
code churn increases,
then it could be a sign that
the software development
project needs attention.

Source: https://stackify.com/track-software-metrics/
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DEFECTS IN DEPENDENCE OF SYSTEM FUNCTIONALITY

50 Number of Faults 3.5


3.4
45 Fault Density (Faults/KSLOC)
Average Fault Density (Faults/KSLOC) 3.0
40
2.6
35 2.5
2.1
30
2.0
1.8
25
1.8
1.5
20

15 1.0
0.7
10
0.5
5

0 0.0

Dispensing Management Console Tool Driver Data

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HOW? - THE GOAL-QUESTIONS-METRICS METHODOLOGY

Goal (object, purpose, quality aspect, viewpoint, environment)

variation
factors Quality models
implicit
Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4

INTERPRETATION
models
DEFINITION

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M1 M2 M3 M4 M5 M6 M7 M8 …

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EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENTS OF QUALITY OF THE WORK PRODUCT (1/2)

 Number of issues raised at requirements inspection


 Number of requirements issues open
 Number of requirements issues closed
 Number of issues raised during code inspection
 Number of defects opened during unit testing

Adapted from: www.iteam.com

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EXAMPLES OF MEASUREMENTS OF QUALITY OF THE WORK PRODUCT (2/2)

 Number of defects opened during system testing


 Number of defects opened during UAT
 Number of defects still open
 Number of defects closed
 Defect age

Adapted from: www.iteam.com

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EXAMPLE DIRECTIONS FOR ANALYSIS

 Technology evaluation (effort, time, performance, usability)


 Find strength and limitations of technologies
 Find preferred areas of applications of technologies
 How long does it take to learn/train?
 Comparison between technologies
 Usefulness
 Usage (Who? How much?)

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