Since the mid 70s when the first software metrics were proposed, a large number of metrics have been proposed in the following years. Successes, failures and new directions norman e fenton centre for software reliability agena ltd city university 11 main street northampton square caldecote london ec1v ohb cambridge cb3 7nu united kingdom united kingdom tel. Those who downloaded this book also downloaded the following books. Army engineer waterways experiment station information technology. A critique of software defect prediction models norman fenton, martin neil centre for software reliability. Fenton ne and neil m, software metrics and risk, proc 2nd european software measurement conference fesma99, tikviv, amsterdam,isbn 907601907x, 3955, 1999. The book has been comprehensively rewritten and redesigned to take account of the fast changing developments in software metrics, most notably their widespread penetration into industrial practice. Software metrics are necessarily computed on the structure of the source code. The book, which is a result of the two decades of teaching experience of the author, aims to present testing concepts and methods that can be used in practice. He gained his master of science at the university of sheffield 1978 winning the atm flett prize, and. His current projects focus on using bayesian methods of analysis to risk assessment. All content in this area was uploaded by norman elliott fenton on dec 10, 2018. Software metrics and measurements semantic scholar.
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