This presentation will provide an overview of metrics that have been proposed for software maintenance and evolution. The metrics will be associated with various aspects of the system change cycle. Next the attention will shift to a consideration of what we should be trying to measure, based on ways systems evolve over time. These observations will lead to recommendations for focus areas of measurement activity to meet the perceived needs -- how our measures must evolve to support the evolving software.

Biography

Dr. William W. Agresti is a consulting scientist with Mitretek Systems in McLean, Virginia. He specializes in software quality issues. At present, Dr. Agresti is on leave from Mitretek to head the new program in Experimental Software Systems at the National Science Foundation's Directorate of Computer and Information Systems and Engineering.

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