An operational process for goal-driven definition of measures

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 28, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 1106-1125

  Briand, Lionel C ^a   Morasca, Sandro ^b   Basili, Victor R ^c  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF INSUBRIA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Goal question metric paradigm; Software measurement; Software quality

Indexed keywords

PROBLEM SOLVING; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0036964198     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2002.1158285     Document Type: Article

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