Many organizations want to predict the number of defects (faults) in software systems, before
they are deployed, to gauge the likely delivered quality and maintenance effort. To help in …

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This paper reports on a modest study which relates seven different software complexity
metrics to the experience of maintenance activities performed on a medium size software …

The groundwork for software metrics was established in the seventies, and from these
earlier works, interesting results have emerged in the eighties. Over 120 of the many …

Software systems undergo modifications, improvements and enhancements to cope with
evolving requirements. This maintenance can cause their quality to decrease. Various …

Inappropriate use of software complexity measures can have large, damaging effects by
rewarding poor programming practices and demoralizing good programmers. Software …

Standard practice in building models in software engineering normally involves three steps:
collecting domain knowledge (previous results, expert knowledge); building a skeleton of …

Aims: Software quality assurance is a formal process for evaluating and documenting the
quality of the work products during each stage of the software development lifecycle. The …

This article examines the metrics of the software science model, cyclomatic complexity, and
an information flow metric of Henry and Kafura. These were selected on the basis of their …

An introductory course on Software Engineering remains one of the hardest subjects to
teach largely because of the wide range of topics the area enc-passes. I have believed for …