Software Testing

Naresh Chauhan, Assistant Professor in the

Department of Computer Engineering at the
YMCA University of Science and Technology,
Faridabad

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 Chapter 10
Software Metrics

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 Chapter 10
Software Metrics

Objectives
• Software projects need measurement to quantify things for better
monitoring and control over software development
• Software metrics are quantitative measurements
• Various types of software metrics
• Entities to be measured for the software: process, product, and
resource
• Recognition of attributes
• Line-of-code metrics
• Halstead metrics
• Function point analysis metrics

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 Evolution
Need ofof Software
Software Testing
Measurement

• Understanding

• Control

• Improvement

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 Evolution Software
of Software
Metrics Testing

A Quantitative measure of the degree to which a system

component or process possesses a given attribute.

Classification of Software Metrics

Product vs. Process Metrics
Objective vs. Subjective Metrics
Private vs. Public Metrics

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 Entities to be Measured

• Processes
• Product
• Resource

The attributes of entities

• Internal Attributes
• External Attributes

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 Size Metrics

Line of Code (LOC)

Token Count (Halstead Product Metrics)

Program Vocabulary
n = n1 + n2
where n = program vocabulary
n1 = number of unique operators
n2 = number of unique operands
Program Length
N = N1 + N2
Where N = program length
N1 = all operators appearing in the implementation
N2 = all operands appearing in the implementation
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 Token Count

Program Volume

V = N log2 n
where V = Program volume
N = Program length
n = Program vocabulary

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 Function Point Analysis

Determine the type of project.

Identify the counting scope and the application boundary.

Identify all data functions (internal logical functions and

external interface files) and their complexity.

Identify all transactional functions (external inputs, external

outputs and the external queries) and their complexity.

Determine the unadjusted function point count (UFP).

Determine the value adjustment factor, which is based on the 14

general system characteristics (GSCs).

Calculate the adjusted function point count (AFP).

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Function Myths
Point Analysis

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 Function Point Analysis

VAF = (TDI x 0.01 ) + 0.065

AFP = UFP x VAF

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