| |
|
|
Software Metrics
|
ALSO CALLED: Software Performance Metrics, IT Metrics, and Software Measurement
DEFINITION: 1) In software development, a metric (noun) is the measurement of a particular characteristic of a program's performance or efficiency. Similarly in network routing, a metric is a measure used in calculating the next host to route a packet to. A metric is sometimes used directly and sometimes as an element in an algorithm. In programming, a benchmark includes metrics. 2)
Definition continues below.
|
|
| Recent Vendor Reports on Software Metrics |
Bitpipe Research Guide: Software Development Management
| sponsored by Bitpipe
RESOURCE CENTER:
Don't think you're in the software business? Think again.
Posted: 30 Nov 2006 | Published: 30 Nov 2006
|
|  |
|
| |
SOFTWARE METRICS DEFINITION (continued):
1) In software development, a metric (noun) is the measurement of a particular characteristic of a program's performance or efficiency. Similarly in network routing, a metric is a measure used in calculating the next host to route a packet to. A metric is sometimes used directly and sometimes as an element in an algorithm. In programming, a benchmark includes metrics. 2) Metric (adjective) pertains to anything based on the meter as a unit of spatial measurement. Software Metrics definition sponsored by WhatIs.com, powered by WhatIs.com an online computer dictionary
|
| |
|