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CAME Tools
Introduction
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| Table of Contents |
Index |
References |
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| Measurement strategies |
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Measurement can be realized in a direct or an indirect way. Indirect software measurement is based on the component model sectioned in the categories process, product and resources ( [Fent91] ) which allows us to specifiy the phases of measurement as follows:
- modelling: construction of a model for the software component with regard to different presentations
- measurement based on a model
- analysis of the measurement data aided by adequate statistical methods
- evaluation of the measurement results based on the validation
- decision-making for the measurement reasoning problem
- improvement as main objective of software measurement
The last two items do not belong to the software mesurement process but they justify its general objectives. Several variants of measurement strategies refer to these six basic steps:
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Figure 2: Examples of measurement strategies
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| Presently the measurement process is tied closely to the definition of new metrics, their validation and their experimental application. Hence it might be difficult to find applicable support in software metrics publications. |
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