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Record W1526698614 · doi:10.1002/9780470606834.app2

Appendix B: Glossary of Terms in Software Measurement

2010· other· en· W1526698614 on OpenAlexaff
Alain Abran

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsUniversité du Québec à MontréalÉcole de Technologie Supérieure
Fundersnot available
KeywordsGlossaryAppendixComputer scienceSoftwareProgramming languageLinguisticsPhilosophyBiology

Abstract

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In Chapter 3 on Metrology, the measurement concepts have been presented as defi ned in classical metrology and used throughout the sciences and in engineering.However, software has defi ned its own measurement terminology; for instance, while the widely " quantity, " " base quantity " and " derived quantity " are the terms adopted in metrology, the corresponding terminology in software would be " attribute, " " base attribute " and " derived attribute."To help practitioners and researchers in the software engineering and metrology communities bridge the cultural gap between them, this Appendix presents the terms, and their defi nitions, that would be the most familiar to each culture, while not specifi cally recommending their use. B.1 SOME MEASUREMENT TERMS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERINGAttribute: the property of an entity that can be determined quantitatively, that is, for which a magnitude can be assigned.In the metrology vocabulary, this is called a measurable quantity , or quantity for short. 299Some quality attribute models, such as in ISO 9126, use the terms quality characteristic and sub -characteristic.ISO 15939 considers an attribute to be a property related to information needs.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.013
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.418
Threshold uncertainty score0.830

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.013
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0090.016
Science and technology studies0.0010.001
Scholarly communication0.0040.005
Open science0.0010.002
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.4180.303

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.021
GPT teacher head0.254
Teacher spread0.233 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreDataset

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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