Application of spreadsheet software in software engineering measurement technology

✍ Scribed by P Kokol

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1989
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 653 KB
• Volume: 31
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0950-5849
• DOI: 10.1016/0950-5849(89)90146-8

✦ Synopsis

The application of measurement technology to software engineering and science is relatively new and therefore the benefits of usin9 it are not recognised enough. The development and use of adequate measures of software and its development process are essential, however, to the production of cost-effective and reliable software. The main objective of the paper is to show that spreadsheet software, hybrid metrics, and metrics life-cycle models can improve the situation. measurement, software metrics, hybrid metrics, reliability, spreadsheet software, life-cycle models Measurement technology serves as a foundation for all scientific and engineering disciplines 1. The benefits of using measurement are well recognised, as are the costs. Almost all advances in fields such as physics, biology, and chemistry have occurred through interaction between measures of objects and events in the real world and their abstractions in the world of models and explanations. On the other hand, the application of measurement technology to software engineering and science is relatively new, and therefore its benefits are not recognised by most people who work with computers. The development and use of adequate measures of software and its development process are essential, however, to the production of cost-effective and reliable software.