A comparison between foundations of metrology and software measurement

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 235-241

  Carbone, Paolo ^a   Buglione, Luigi ^b,c   Mari, Luca ^d   Petri, Dario ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

^b Atos Origin   (Italy)

^c ÉCOLE DE TECHNOLOGIE SUPÉRIEURE   (Canada)

^d CREMS Centre for Research on Health Economics Social and Health Care Management Carlo Cattaneo University LIUC   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Measurement design; Measurement modeling; Measurement uncertainty; Metrology; Software measurement

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS;

MEASUREMENT DESIGN; SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT;

MEASUREMENTS;

EID: 39549090147     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2007.909614     Document Type: Article

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