Reply to: “Property-based software engineering measurement”

Author

Zuse, Horst

Author_Institution

Fachbereich Inf., Tech. Univ. Berlin, Germany

Volume

23

Issue

8

fYear

1997

fDate

8/1/1997 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

533

Abstract

L.C. Briand, S. Morasca and V.R. Basili (ibid., vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 68-85, Jan. 1996) introduced a measurement-theoretic approach to software measurement and criticized (among others) the work of the author, but they misinterpreted his work. The author does not require additive software (complexity) measures as Briand, Morasca and Basili state. The author uses the concept of the extensive structure in order to show the empirical properties behind software measures. Briand, Morasca and Basili use the concept of meaningfulness in order to describe scales and that certain scale levels are not excluded by the Weyuker properties. However, they do not consider that scales and scale types are different things

Keywords

software metrics; Weyuker properties; additive software complexity measures; empirical properties; extensive structure; meaningfulness; measurement-theoretic approach; property-based software engineering measurement; scale levels; scale types; software measures; software metrics; Additives; Lab-on-a-chip; Size measurement; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software metrics;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-5589

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/32.624309

Filename

624309