• DocumentCode
    754246
  • Title

    Software Science Revisited: A Critical Analysis of the Theory and Its Empirical Support

  • Author

    Shen, Vincent Y. ; Conte, Samuel D. ; Dunsmore, H.E.

  • Author_Institution
    Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University
  • Issue
    2
  • fYear
    1983
  • fDate
    3/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    155
  • Lastpage
    165
  • Abstract
    The theory of software science was developed by the late M. H. Halstead of Purdue University during the early 1970´s. It was first presented in unified form in the monograph Elements of Software Science published by Elsevier North-Holland in 1977. Since it claimed to apply scientific methods to the very complex and important problem of software production, and since experimental evidence supplied by Halstead and others seemed to support the theory, it drew widespread attention from the computer science community.
  • Keywords
    Software complexity; software engineering; software management; software measurement; software metrics; software science; Books; Computer science; Engineering management; Military computing; Production; Programming profession; Software engineering; Software measurement; Software metrics; Software tools; Software complexity; software engineering; software management; software measurement; software metrics; software science;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    0098-5589
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TSE.1983.236460
  • Filename
    1703032
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=754246