Abstract :
Traditional software engineering jumps too quickly from high-level quality statements to design ideas. To be clear about design, we must add a step to quantify the quality levels required. Words are ambiguous and lead to misunderstandings. Compare ";I want a user-friendly system"; to ";I want a system that reduces the number of accidental errors made by novice users to fewer than five per 1,000 transactions."; You can engineer and prove the latter. The author has defined 10 principles for quantifying quantification and a notation system for them.
Keywords :
software metrics; software quality; software engineering; software metrics; software quality; user-friendly system; Computer industry; Delay; Guidelines; History; Manufacturing industries; Programming profession; Software quality; Software systems; System testing; User interfaces; software engineering; software metrics; software quality;
