Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!CALSTATE.BITNET!PAAAAAR From: PAAAAAR@CALSTATE.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Software QUALITY Engineering Message-ID: <8910251644.AA22447@mwunix.mitre.org> Date: 25 Oct 89 15:55:42 GMT Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Organization: The MITRE Corp., Washington, D.C. Lines: 27 Steve Shapland Writes >>... the process of design is not subject to statistical control. >Perhaps the process of design is not subject to statistical control, but >it CAN be measured. The "products" of the design process are documents >describing the design and the resulting code. Consider the following >metrics (to mention just a few): > 1) Differences from the functional specifications. It is possible to automatically compare successive documents to see if they use the same vocabulary. This assumes that the clients/users words are an important part of the problem and so should appear in the solution. For example if a requirement mentions "widget" then so must appear in at least one program specification and possibly as an object or at least a piece of the source code or variable. Dick Botting, Department computer science, California State University, San Bernardino, CA 92407 "where smog of LA, is blown away, and the sun shines bright all the day"! PAAAAAR@CCS.CSUSCC.CALSTATE paaaaar@calstate.bitnet PAAAAAR%CALSTATE.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU Disclaimer: The above are not opinions of CSU or any part of of CSU