Using software metrics and measurements to improve software productivity and quality

Author

McGarry, Frank E.

Author_Institution

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

21-23 March 1988

Firstpage

105

Abstract

Summary form only given, as follows. The software engineering laboratory (SEL) at Goddard space flight center has determined five key benefits to the collection of software metrics. The benefits are: (1) they provide a keener understanding of the specific software development environment; (2) they add support to management of active development projects; (3) they produce a foundation for planning future projects; (4) they provide a basis for adopting development practices and/or guidelines, and (5) they produce evidence toward assessment of applied software technology.

Keywords

aerospace computing; software engineering; standards; Goddard space flight center; SEL; active development projects; applied software technology; development practices; future projects; guidelines; planning; software development environment; software engineering laboratory; software measurements; software metrics; software productivity; Environmental management; Extraterrestrial measurements; Laboratories; Programming; Project management; Software development management; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software metrics; Technology management;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Standards Conference, 1988. Computer Standards Evolution: Impact and Imperatives, Proceedings of the

Conference_Location

Washington, DC, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0791-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CSTAND.1988.4775

Filename

4775