Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach
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...Other articles stressing the need for empiricism in software engineering have since been published, see for example work by Basili, Fenton, Glass, Kitchenham, Pfleeger, Pickard, Potts and Tichy [9,57,62,97,140,169]....
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...Fenton and Pfleeger [56] propose using a value, which is the length of the box, multiplied with 1:5 and added or subtracted from the upper and lower quartiles, respectively....
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...Table 2.2 is an extension of the different factors discussed by Pfleeger [133]....
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...Case study research is further discussed in general by, for example, Robson [144], Stake [165], and Yin [180], and specifically for software engineering by Pfleeger [133], Kitchenham et al. [97], Verner et al. [173], Runeson and Höst [145], and Runeson et al. [146]....
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...If this transformation from one measure to another preserves the relationship among the objects, it is called an admissible transformation [56]....
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...National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology Conseil national de recherches Canada Institut de Technologie de l’information Preliminary Guidelines for Empirical Research in Software Engineering Kitchenham, B.A., Pfleeger, S.L., Pickard, L.M., Jones, P.W., Hoaglin, D.C., El-Emam, K., and Rosenberg, J. January 2001 ERB-1082 NRC 44158 National Research Council Canada Institute for Information Technology Conseil national de recherches Canada Institut de Technologie de l’information Preliminary Guidelines for Empirical Research in Software Engineering Kitchenham, B.A., Pfleeger, S.L., Pickard, L.M., Jones, P.W., Hoaglin, D.C., El-Emam, K., and Rosenberg, J. January 2001 Copyright 2001 by National Research Council of Canada Permission is granted to quote short excerpts and to reproduce figures and tables from this report, provided that the source of such material is fully acknowledged....
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...Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice.11, 1999 pp365-389 [24] B.A. Kitchenham, S.L. Pfleeger and N. Fenton....
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...* Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire, UK ** Systems/Software, Inc., Washington, DC, USA *** Abt Associates Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA **** National Reserch Council of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada *****Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, CA, USA Preliminary guidelines for empirical research in software engineering Barbara A. Kitchenham*, Shari Lawrence Pfleeger**, Lesley M. Pickard*, Peter W. Jones*, David C. Hoaglin***, Khaled El-Emam****, and Jarrett Rosenberg**** Abstract Empirical software engineering research needs research guidelines to improve the research and reporting processes....
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...Fenton and Pfleeger [11] provide many examples of product, process, and resource characteristics that are measured inconsistently across different development and maintenance organizations....
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...Kitchenham, Pickard, Pfleeger and El-Emam are software engineering researchers with backgrounds in statistics as well as computer science....
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...Fenton and Pfleeger offer an insightful example where the same functionality is achieved using different programming language constructs resulting in different static measurements for that module [32]....
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...Fenton and Pfleeger note that the main McCabe’s attribute (cyclomatic complexity, or vðgÞ) is highly correlated with lines of code [32]....
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...these problems (which are discussed extensively in [45]) we...
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...The simplicity of such a single number seems deceptively appealing but the principles of measurement are based on identifying differing well-defined attributes with single standard measures [45]....
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