1 Measurement: What is it and why do it?

1.3 The scope of software metrics

Software metrics is a term that embraces many acivities, all of which involve some degree of software measurement:

• cost and effort estimation

• productivity measures and models

• data collection

• quality models and measures

• reliability models

• performance evaluation and models

• structural and complexity metrics

• capability-maturity assessment

• management by metrics

• evaluation of methods and tools