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All engineering disciplines other than software rely on quantitative approaches to design their products, organize the production process, and assess the results. Software engineering too can benefit from measuring relevant properties of its products and processes.
Measurements are not an end in themselves; they must be related to broader goals of software engineering:
The purpose of software measurements is to provide quantitative assessments or predictions of properties of software products and processes
For any numerical measure that we propose we must have precise information on four properties: coverage, trustworthiness, relevance, theory.
Any quantitative report on software products or processes should satisfy the following properties:
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