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WWW pages
  1. SEI Software Engineering Institute Measurement and Analysis home page
  2. NASA Software Assurance Technology/Metrics home page
  3. NASA Metrics Data Program - publicly available software metrics data
  4. NASA Metrics Data Program Glossary and Definition - metrics glossary, includes the description of many comon software metrics
  5. PROMISE Software Engineering Repository - publicly available software metrics data
  6. Guide to Practical Software Measurement lots of good and practical ideas what to measure in software projects and how to do the measurement
  7. Thomas Fetckes’s metrics site
  8. European Federation of Software Metrics Assiciation
  9. Software metrics tools Queens University
  10. USC Code Count Tools - see left sidebar: Available Tools/CodeCount
  11. QSM articles about estimation and metrics
  12. Warren Harrison’s Software Metrics Home Page
  13. Software Metrics, The IT Metrics and Productivity Institue
  14. Finnish Software Metrics Association
  15. StickyMinds.com (see => Measurement): resources about software measurement and other areas, too
  16. David E. Lorenz’s Software Metrics Site

Literature



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