SOFTWARE METRIC AND QUALITY (3 Credits)

Learning Outcomes:

On successful completion of this Course, students will be able to: Construct the need for software metrics; Develop how the process of Empirical investigation; Criticize the techniques Measuring external product attributes: quality; Investigate the  Measuring software reliability; Design with Software test metrics; Design with the Object-Oriented Metrics.

Topics:

1. Overview of software metrics;
2. The basics of measurement;
3. Goal-based framework for software measurement;
4. Empirical investigation;
5. Measuring internal product attributes: size (3 sessions);
6. Measuring internal product attributes: structure;
7. Measuring cost and effort;
8. Measuring external product attributes: quality;
9. Measuring software reliability;
10. Software test metrics;
11. Object-oriented metrics (3 sessions);
12. The Automatics Software Metrics Agents.