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A concept of quality assurance for metrics in CASE-tools

A concept of quality assurance for metrics in CASE-tools ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Page 1 September 2010 Volume 35 Number 5 A Concept of Quality Assurance for Metrics in CASE-Tools Hashem Yazbek University of Magdeburg, Dept. of Computer Science, P.O. Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany, < yazbek@ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de > Abstract The quality of software has become more important to software companies in the past years. Software measurement is one of many approaches that is used to check the quality of software [18]. This may involve measuring some attributes of a software product or a software process and comparing these measurements to each other or to some desirable level. A software metric is œany type of measurement that relates to a software system, process or related documentation  [7]. Software metrics can help to improve the quality of the produced software. However, metrics and metrics tools are still not used in most software companies “ for example in the 3 companies where we cooperated in last 5 years. One reason is that there is lack of knowledge about metrics and hence software metrics are still unknown or difficult to use for some developers, and software measurement is still time-consuming for managers. Another reason is that, good metrics tools http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Association for Computing Machinery

A concept of quality assurance for metrics in CASE-tools

Yazbek, Hashem
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes , Volume 35 (5) – Oct 22, 2010
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ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes Page 1 September 2010 Volume 35 Number 5 A Concept of Quality Assurance for Metrics in CASE-Tools Hashem Yazbek University of Magdeburg, Dept. of Computer Science, P.O. Box 4120, D-39016 Magdeburg, Germany, < yazbek@ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de > Abstract The quality of software has become more important to software companies in the past years. Software measurement is one of many approaches that is used to check the quality of software [18]. This may involve measuring some attributes of a software product or a software process and comparing these measurements to each other or to some desirable level. A software metric is œany type of measurement that relates to a software system, process or related documentation  [7]. Software metrics can help to improve the quality of the produced software. However, metrics and metrics tools are still not used in most software companies “ for example in the 3 companies where we cooperated in last 5 years. One reason is that there is lack of knowledge about metrics and hence software metrics are still unknown or difficult to use for some developers, and software measurement is still time-consuming for managers. Another reason is that, good metrics tools

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