Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!uflorida!gatech!purdue!haven!mimsy!tove.cs.umd.edu!cml From: cml@tove.cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: measuring software complexity Message-ID: <33327@mimsy.umd.edu> Date: 21 Apr 91 16:57:30 GMT References: <33118@mimsy.umd.edu> <36650006@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> Sender: news@mimsy.umd.edu Reply-To: cml@tove.cs.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) Organization: The University of Maryland Dept of Computer Science Lines: 25 In I write: >> This seems to be a good spot to put in a plug for the Goal/Question/Metric >> paradigm, developed by Dr. Victor Basili and others here at U Maryland. In article <36650006@hpopd.pwd.hp.com> daves@hpopd.pwd.hp.com (Dave Straker) writes: >I support this plug. I came across the notion last summer, and it has >changed my life! It's one of those things that is so obvious that you >wonder why you didn't use it before. High praise indeed! Well, I don't know about the life-changing possibilities of this approach, but here's the reference I promised: Basili, Victor R., and H. Dieter Rombach, "The Tame Project: Towards Improvement-Oriented Software Environments," IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 14, No. 6, June 1988, pp. 758-773. Reprints available from me by sending a preaddressed envelope with enough postage for about 10 8.5x11" sheets to my address below. chris... -- Christopher Lott \/ Dept of Comp Sci, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 cml@cs.umd.edu /\ 4122 AV Williams Bldg 301 405-2721