ALAIN ABRAN, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec (Canada). Dr. Abran is a coeditor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and System Engineering. Dr. Abran has close to twenty years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering.

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• Foreword viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xviiAbout the Author xixPART 1: Key Concepts for the Design of Software Measures 11 INTRODUCTION 32 FROM MEASUREMENT METHODS TO QUANTITATIVE MODELS: A MEASUREMENT CONTEXT MODEL 173 METROLOGY AND QUALITY CRITERIA IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 474 QUANTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT ARE NOT THE SAME! 675 THE DESIGN OF SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT METHODS 99PART 2: Some Popular Software Measures: How Good Are They? 1296 CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY NUMBER: ANALYSIS OF ITS DESIGN 1317 HALSTEAD'S METRICS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGNS 1458 FUNCTION POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 1619 USE CASE POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 19110 ISO 9126: ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MODELS AND MEASURES 205PART 3: The Design of COSMIC – ISO 19761 22911 COSMIC: DESIGN OF AN INITIAL PROTOTYPE 23112 COSMIC: SCALING UP AND INDUSTRIALIZATION 247PART 4: Other Issues in the Design of Software Measures 26713 CONVERTIBILITY ACROSS MEASUREMENT METHODS 26914 DESIGN OF STANDARD ETALONS: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 281Appendix A: List of Acronyms 297Appendix B: Glossary of Terms in Software Measurement 299Appendix C: References 305Index 313

ALAIN ABRAN, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec (Canada). Dr. Abran is a coeditor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and System Engineering. Dr. Abran has close to twenty years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering.

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• Foreword viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xviiAbout the Author xixPART 1: Key Concepts for the Design of Software Measures 11 INTRODUCTION 32 FROM MEASUREMENT METHODS TO QUANTITATIVE MODELS: A MEASUREMENT CONTEXT MODEL 173 METROLOGY AND QUALITY CRITERIA IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 474 QUANTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT ARE NOT THE SAME! 675 THE DESIGN OF SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT METHODS 99PART 2: Some Popular Software Measures: How Good Are They? 1296 CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY NUMBER: ANALYSIS OF ITS DESIGN 1317 HALSTEAD'S METRICS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGNS 1458 FUNCTION POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 1619 USE CASE POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 19110 ISO 9126: ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MODELS AND MEASURES 205PART 3: The Design of COSMIC – ISO 19761 22911 COSMIC: DESIGN OF AN INITIAL PROTOTYPE 23112 COSMIC: SCALING UP AND INDUSTRIALIZATION 247PART 4: Other Issues in the Design of Software Measures 26713 CONVERTIBILITY ACROSS MEASUREMENT METHODS 26914 DESIGN OF STANDARD ETALONS: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 281Appendix A: List of Acronyms 297Appendix B: Glossary of Terms in Software Measurement 299Appendix C: References 305Index 313

ALAIN ABRAN, PhD, is a Professor and the Director of the Software Engineering Research Laboratory at École de technologie supérieure, Université du Québec (Canada). Dr. Abran is a coeditor of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge. He has also been actively involved in software engineering standardization as the international secretary for ISO/IEC JTC 1/SC 7 - Software and System Engineering. Dr. Abran has close to twenty years of industry experience in information systems development and software engineering.

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• Foreword viiPreface ixAcknowledgments xviiAbout the Author xixPART 1: Key Concepts for the Design of Software Measures 11 INTRODUCTION 32 FROM MEASUREMENT METHODS TO QUANTITATIVE MODELS: A MEASUREMENT CONTEXT MODEL 173 METROLOGY AND QUALITY CRITERIA IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 474 QUANTIFICATION AND MEASUREMENT ARE NOT THE SAME! 675 THE DESIGN OF SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT METHODS 99PART 2: Some Popular Software Measures: How Good Are They? 1296 CYCLOMATIC COMPLEXITY NUMBER: ANALYSIS OF ITS DESIGN 1317 HALSTEAD'S METRICS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGNS 1458 FUNCTION POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 1619 USE CASE POINTS: ANALYSIS OF THEIR DESIGN 19110 ISO 9126: ANALYSIS OF QUALITY MODELS AND MEASURES 205PART 3: The Design of COSMIC – ISO 19761 22911 COSMIC: DESIGN OF AN INITIAL PROTOTYPE 23112 COSMIC: SCALING UP AND INDUSTRIALIZATION 247PART 4: Other Issues in the Design of Software Measures 26713 CONVERTIBILITY ACROSS MEASUREMENT METHODS 26914 DESIGN OF STANDARD ETALONS: THE NEXT FRONTIER IN SOFTWARE MEASUREMENT 281Appendix A: List of Acronyms 297Appendix B: Glossary of Terms in Software Measurement 299Appendix C: References 305Index 313