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Record W4239912276 · doi:10.1002/0471028959.sof198

Measurement

2002· other· en· W4239912276 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

A frame that forgets how it found something cannot be audited. These are the routes that admitted this work.

affAt least one author lists a Canadian institution in the pinned OpenAlex snapshot.

Bibliographic record

VenueEncyclopedia of Software Engineering · 2002
Typeother
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicSoftware Engineering Research
Canadian institutionsPricewaterhouseCoopers (Canada)
Fundersnot available
KeywordsComputer scienceSoftware engineeringSoftwareSoftware metricContext (archaeology)CompilerSoftware developmentProcess (computing)Resource (disambiguation)Software sizingSoftware constructionSoftware systemSoftware measurementProgramming language

Abstract

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Abstract This article discusses the following topics: History of software measurement Definition and goals of software measurement Types of software models and measures Examples of descriptive and predictive models and measures Measurement methodology Measurement was an important activity from the earliest examples of computer programming. Early programs were often developed to perform repetitive calculations such as computing firing tables for military applications; to implement numerical methods for solving mathematical problems; to process business transactions and update files; and to develop systems software such as device drivers, assemblers, compilers, and operating systems. The measures of interest were specific to the program, and were strongly influenced by the resource limitations of the times. Programmers were concerned mostly with implementing the program correctly, improving the execution speed of their programs, and conserving limited fast memory on the machines. By the time of the influential conference at Garmisch, Germany, which introduced the term “software engineering” in 1968, the scope of software measurement had increased. For example, discussions at the conference reflect that the properties of productivity and reliability were recognized, along with the context of developing software by a group of people rather than an individual. Continuing from the late 1960s, through the 1970s and early 1980s, software measurement was marked by selected instances of progress. However, the measurement goals were neither explicit nor comprehensive. Progress since 1985 or so has brought software measurement to a more mature state with the following characteristics of this nature state are defined.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Methods · Consensus signal: Methods
Teacher disagreement score0.346
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.014
GPT teacher head0.214
Teacher spread0.200 · 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