Foundations of software measurement
Foundations of software measurement
On the Use of Testability Measures for Dependability Assessment
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Property-Based Software Engineering Measurement
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Elements of Software Science (Operating and programming systems series)
Software Reliability Engineered Testing
Software Reliability Engineered Testing
Software Testability: The New Verification
IEEE Software
A method to standardize usability metrics into a single score
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques
Software Testing and Analysis: Process, Principles and Techniques
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
MNav: A Markov Model-Based Web Site Navigability Measure
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
On the use of weighted sums in the definition of measures
Proceedings of the 2010 ICSE Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics
On the evolution of quality conceptualization techniques
The evolution of conceptual modeling
An empirical investigation of perceived reliability of open source Java programs
Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
On the definition of dynamic software measures
Proceedings of the ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Object-oriented class maintainability prediction using internal quality attributes
Information and Software Technology
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The quantification of so-called external software attributes, which are the product qualities with real relevance for developers and users, has often been problematic. This paper introduces a proposal for quantifying external software attributes in a unified way. The basic idea is that external software attributes can be quantified by means of probabilities. As a consequence, external software attributes can be estimated via probabilistic models, and not directly measured via software measures. This paper discusses the reasons underlying the proposals and shows the pitfalls related to using measures for external software attributes. We also show that the theoretical bases for our approach can be found in so-called “probability representations,” a part of Measurement Theory that has not yet been used in Software Engineering Measurement. By taking the definition and estimation of reliability as reference, we show that other external software attributes can be defined and modeled by a probability-based approach.