Abstract:

Measurement is a fundamental tool in Software Engineering, like in all other engineering disciplines. Making sure that a measure makes sense is a prerequisite to using it in practice. A large number of software product measures have been defined in the past, often without a clear understanding of the software qualities they purport to measure. The talk will focus on two kinds of approaches that have appeared in the literature to define software product measures that make sense: Measurement Theory and Axiomatic Approaches. It will also be shown how these techniques can be used during the definition of software product measures that are clearly related to some industrial goal they help reach.

Short Bio:

Sandro Morasca is a Professor of Computer Science at the "Dipartimento di Scienze della Cultura, Politiche e dell'Informazione" of the Università degli Studi dell'Insubria in Como, Italy. In the past, he was an Associate
Professor and Assistant Professor at the "Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informazione" of Politecnico di Milano in Milano, Italy. He was a Faculty Research Assistant and later a Visiting Scientist at the Department of Computer Science of the University of Maryland at College Park. Sandro Morasca has been carrying out research in the Software Engineering field in Empirical Software Engineering, Specification of Concurrent and Real-time Software Systems, and Software Verification, and has published about 20 journal papers and 40 conference papers. Sandro Morasca has been involved in a number of national and international projects. He has served on the PC of several international conferences. He has organized METRICS 2005 in Como as
General Chair. Sandro Morasca is on the Editorial Board of "Empirical Software Engineering: An International Journal".

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