'ones interest in this book is stimulated by the controversial thesis of the book ... Shepperd and Ince contend that researchers have not addressed the modelling aspects of software metrication sufficiently ... To ignore the arguments the authors present to support their thesis would be foolish in the extreme. Although some of the later chapters are technical, this should not deter you from buying and reading this excellent book.'Dr Patrick McParland, The Queen's University of Belfast, Software Development Monitor, November 1993

• Introduction ; 1. Software metrics reviewed ; 2. Promises and problems ; 3. Models, theories, and metrics ; 4. An approach to metrics modelling ; 5. a uni-dimensional model of design ; 6. A multi-dimensional model of design ; Summary