Software Engineering Measurement

continuous, 379

discrete, 378

distribution function of, 379

functions of, 386

Ratings reliability, computation of, 63

Reasoning skills, 57

Receiving node, 78, 411

Regression

analysis of variance, 146, 210, 397, 398

domain scores, 166

experimental, 149

linear regression models and, 154

equation, domain scores, 166

linear, 394

as metric validation tool, 167

model(s), 156, 210, 397

with dummy variates, 161, 162

performance, 159

selection of best, 161

statistics, 211

Relative error, 29

Reliability estimation, data collection for, 319

Replacement code, insertion of fault into, 275

Requirements

analysis, best measure of, 43

process, 11

traceability, 104, 241

tracking system, 343

Research

funding, software discipline and, 374

product-oriented, 373

reporting, major drawback to yesterday's, 370

review process, institutionalization of, 369

training, 368

Residual analysis, 150

Residual values, 151, 152

Resource allocation optimal, 189

Return on investment (ROI), 52, 372

Richter scale, logarithmic, 164

ROI, see Return on investment

Rounding, 29

RTJ system, 283