Draft Software Metrics Panels Final Report. Papers Presented at the 30 June 1980 Meeting on Software Metrics, Washington DC.

Abstract

Software metrics is a new area of computer science aimed at assigning quantitative indices of merit to software. Here software means more than simple source code; 'software' as a generic for all the stages of tailoring a computer system to solve a problem is used here. All software passes through the following seven stages in its life cycle: (1) requirements analysis, (2) specification, (3) design, (4) implementation, (5) testing and integration, (6) maintenance and enhancement, and (7) replacement or retirement. Since software specification is always imprecise and since the demands on software change with time, backtrack cycles to earlier stages often take place. It is not uncommon for several stages to co-exist and influence each others progress.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA087412

Entities

People

  • Alan J. Perlis
  • Frederick G. Sayward
  • Mary Shaw

Organizations

  • Yale University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Cognition
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Control Systems
  • Data Mining
  • Data Science
  • Databases
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Network Science
  • Psychology
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Surveys

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Parallel and Distributed Computing.