Software Metrics

Reflecting the immense progress in the development and use of software metrics in the past decades, this third edition provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to software metrics. This edition contains new material relevant to object-oriented design, design patterns, model-driven development, and agile development processes. It includes a new chapter on causal models and Bayesian networks and their application to software engineering. This edition also incorporates recent references to the latest software metrics activities.