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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Fundamental Aspects of Software Measurement
verfasst von : Sandro Morasca
Erschienen in: Software Engineering
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Empirical studies are increasingly being used in Software Engineering research and practice. These studies rely on information obtained by measuring software artifacts and processes, and provide both measures and models based on measures as results. This paper illustrates a number of fundamental aspects of Software Measurement in the definition of measures that make sense, so they can be used appropriately. Specifically, we describe the foundations of measurement established by Measurement Theory and show how they can be used in Software Measurement for both internal and external software attributes. We also describe Axiomatic Approaches that have been defined in Software Measurement to capture the properties that measures for various software attributes are required to have. Finally, we show how Measurement Theory and Axiomatic Approaches can be used in an organized process for the definition and validation of measures used for building prediction models.