Field experiments with local software quality metrics

Abstract

Abstract The theory for local software quality metrics that appeared in Software‐Practice and Experience in November has been tested in field experiments. Data collected in the experiments and the results are presented here. The theory prescribed two activities, one for articulating rule sets for quality and the other for deriving a statistical metric. The process of deriving the statistical metric has been reduced to easy practice. Effective articulation of rule sets is still under study.