Why do programmers avoid metrics?

ESEM'08: Proceedings of the 2008 ACM-IEEE International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 129-138

  Umarji, Medha ^a   Seaman, Carolyn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

Code review; In process metrics; Phase containment; Quality; Software metrics; Static analysis; Unit testing

Indexed keywords

CODES (SYMBOLS); COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; DATA ACQUISITION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATIC ANALYSIS;

CODE REVIEW; IN-PROCESS METRICS; PHASE CONTAINMENT; QUALITY; SOFTWARE METRICS; UNIT TESTING;

SOFTWARE TESTING;

EID: 62949092849     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1414004.1414027     Document Type: Conference Paper

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