Posts tagged with the "software metrics" tag
Software Quality Metrics Improve IT Decisions
June 2, 2011 | Be the first to comment! In this week's IT Software Quality Report podcast, Bob Martin, a principal engineer at MITRE Systems, discusses with CISQ Director, Dr. Bill Curtis, how the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other organizations are using software quality metrics to better judge the software and services offered by vendors and contractors. …Read More
Titanic Dilemma: The Seen Versus the Unseen
March 17, 2011 | Be the first to comment! On the night of his ship’s maiden and lone voyage, the skipper of the Titanic saw the top of an iceberg, swerved to avoid it, and in doing so piloted his ship’s hull directly into the monstrous portion of the iceberg that lied unseen beneath the surface of the ocean, …Read More
Sometimes it is Rocket Science
February 23, 2011 | Be the first to comment! Very often when describing a concept, technique or any way of doing something, you hear people quip, “It’s not rocket science.” While normally this holds true for static analysis of business applications, the difference between the capabilities of the type of automated analysis and measurement offered by CAST versus manual …Read More
Size Always Matters
February 15, 2010 | 1 Comment Corner of 26th St. and 6th Ave in NYC at 2 AM? Good to be big! Middle seat from Los Angeles to Sydney? Good to be small! Size always matters. Software is no exception. Software measurement expert Capers Jones has published data on how software size is fundamental. If you know size …Read More
Run Your Apps Through C-A-S-T!
January 20, 2010 | Be the first to comment! Run Your Apps Through C-A-S-T! (Sung to the tune of YMCA by the Village People) IT, there's no need to feel down. I said, IT, pick yourself off the ground. I said, IT, 'cause your website is down And your CIO has left town. IT, there's a place you can go. I said, IT, when your uptime …Read More
Be Like Usain Bolt – Measure Output
October 18, 2009 | Be the first to comment! In a recent post I wrote about the craziness of just measuring the things you do to build something, without ever measuring the quality of the thing you build. Imagine Michelangelo Buonarroti measuring the force and angle of his blows on stone without any sense of the beauty of the statue …Read More
Three Types of Software Quality
October 17, 2009 | 2 Comments There are three basic types of software quality. Functional Quality -- a measure of what the software does vs. what it's supposed to do Non-Functional Quality -- a measure of how well it does it vs. how well it's supposed to do it Latent Quality -- a measure of how well it will …Read More