CSE 8314 (Fall, 2015)
Other Books and Important Papers
Here is a list (continuously updated) of other Metrics/QE books,
and some important papers or book chapters.
Some of the papers were actually recommended by students in
the 8314 classes.
The contents of these papers/chapters roughly correspond to
the topics that we will be covering in our CSE 8314 class,
so they can be used as additional reading material.
Other Software Metrics Books, with my brief comments
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Norman Fenton and Shari Lawrence Pfleeger,
"Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach",
2nd edition,
PWS Publishing, Boston, MA,
1996
Really a nice book for researchers.
With the 2nd edition, the authors also target practioners
by adding "practical to the original subtitle "a regorous approach".
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Martin Shepperd,
"Software Engineering Metrics Vol. I: Measures and Validations",
McGraw-Hill, 1993.
An edited book, with some of the classics reprinted in this
volume, including those by Halstead, McCabe, etc.
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Austin Melton,
"Software Measurement",
ITP Publishing, 1996.
Another edited book, but this more assembled/commissioned/compiled
specifically for this purpose, unlike the Shepperd book above.
So, there is a better uniformity here.
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S.D. Conte, H.E. Dunsmore, and V.Y. Shen,
"Software Engineering Metrics and Models",
Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1986
So, this is an "old" book.
But, since software metrics as a subject area has been around for some
time, this one is still valuable.
Similar contents to Kan's book (MMinSQE).
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M. H. Halstead,
"Elements of Software Science",
Elsevier, 1977
The famous Halstead metrics and related details
are described in this classic book on software metrics.
Actually, the original intention was more ambitious,
as seen from the book title.
He was trying to develop our "science".
Other General Measurement Books, with my brief comments
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Fred S. Roberts,
"Measurement Theory",
Addison-Wesley,
Reading, MA,
1979
The classic of measurement theory.
For a deep understanding of the subject, this is the ONE book to read.
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Ronald W. Potter,
"The Art of Measurement: Theory and Practice",
Prentice Hall PTR, Upper Sadle River, New Jersey, 2000.
Well, a book about general measurement,
with "engineering" as the general application domain.
Relevant Papers
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A. A. Avizienis, J.-C. Laprie, B. Randell, and C. Landwehr.
Basic concepts and taxonomy of dependable and secure computing.
IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing,
Vol.1, No.1, pp.11-33, Jan., 2004.
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D. N. Card.
Learning from our mistakes with defect causal analysis.
IEEE Software, 15(1):56--63, Jan. 1998.
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Here is a paper on EF, or Experience Factory, by Basili et al.,
recommended by Prema Krishnaswamy.
Prepared by Jeff Tian
(tian@engr.smu.edu).
Posted: Aug. 25, 2015.