Index_D

D

Darwin system, 353

core of, 354

database, 358

design of, 354

generic database for, 359–362

NA measurement infrastructure, 356

reporting system, 357

Data

baseline, 337

binding, 95

browsing, 41

Cassini, baseline transformation data for, 208

centroid for, 141

collection

to construct functional profile, 263

mechanism of, 55

methodology, 36

for reliability estimation, 319

examination, 140

execution frequency, 261

ex post facto, 41

fault, collection of, 180, 212

hypothetical, plot of LOC and faults for, 143

listening to, 140

measurement, misuse of, 332

module version, 336

noisy, 33

PASS

discrepancy reports for, 125

domain scores for, 130, 131

random artifacts in, 143

raw metric, build, 190

reliability, 63

repository, 331

structure(s)

attribute, 91, 105

classes of, 88

complexity, 88, 93

mapping of to memory, 89

metric, calculation of, 93

summary, use of to evaluate test outcomes, 290

test execution, 342

Database

Darwin, 358

management systems, 16

metric, inflammatory information in, 339

software measurement, 354

Decimal machine, hypothetical, 220

Decision-making process, research and, 368

Defect, definition of, 99

Degrees of freedom, 147, 163, 236, 383, 393

Delta test, 281, 343

results, 283

suite, standard, 282

Deming, W. Edwards, 8, 48

Derived software measures, 109–135

discovering new sources of variation, 124–126

domain metrics, 126–131

principal components of measurement, 116–122

software science metrics, 110–112

sources of variation, 112–116

unitary measure of software complexity, 131–133

Design

database element, 105

fault, 97

module complexity, 236

objectives, evaluation of, 372

object-oriented, 272

operational profile, 250

process, key feature of, 12

robustness, 313

Developer

name, 339

productivity, 52

Development

environment, 15, 53

time, measurement of, 33

Dirichlet distribution, 257, 385

M-variate, 256

probability density function for, 255

Discrepancy reports (DRs), 124, 125, 156

Discrete probability distributions, 380

Distribution function, random variable, 379

Domain

metrics, 118, 126, 168, 187

baselined, across builds, 196

deltas in, 197

scores

PASS data, 130, 131

regression equation for, 166

DR-Count, 158, 166

DRs, see Discrepancy reports

Dummy variates, 46, 161

Dynamic granularity, 341

Dynamic measurement(s), 254, 274

system, 341

technology, 326

Dynamic program complexity, 294

Dynamic software measurement, 247–272

code instrumentation, 257–261

binary code instrumentation, 261

source code instrumentation process, 258–260

entropy, 270–271

estimates for profiles, 254–257

instrumenting for profiles, 261–264

functional profile, 262–263

module profiles, 262

operational profiles, 264

measure of cohesion, 269–270

partial complexity, 265–269

profiles of software dynamic, 249–254

functional profile, 251–252

module profiles, 252–253

operational profile, 250–251

test profiles, 253–254

stochastic description of program operation, 248–249

concept of epoch, 248

program execution as stochastic process, 249

testability revisited, 271–272

Dynamic source code measurement, 65