Program Flow Analyzer. Volume 3

Abstract

Quantitative techniques for describing and evaluating software systems have been developed on a largely ad hoc basis. The need for control over the software development process has created a software engineering discipline whose purpose is to establish operational procedures for the development of quality software. Unfortunately, techniques for predicting and evaluating software quality and performance are just emerging for practical application. Computer science and software engineering need metrics to help quantify the various aspects of software development. This report summarizes and explains some metrics from current literature. The emphasis of this report is the review of software metrics as they may be applied to the maintainability, supportability, and testability of software.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA145522

Entities

People

  • L. F. Claudio

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Algorithms
  • Computer Languages
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Debugging
  • Engineering
  • Language
  • Organizational Structure
  • Programming Languages
  • Reliability
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Structured Programming

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Systems Analysis and Design