Practice of quality modeling and measurement on software life-cycle

The authors introduce quality metrics into the quantitative software quality estimation technique, embracing the quality estimate of design, as well as of the source code, in studying a quality quantification support system. They outline a quality quantification technique for this system, describe examples of both its application to actual projects and its evaluation, and consider its relationship conventional techniques for estimate indexing of T.J. McCabe (IEEE Trans. Softw. Eng., vol.SE-2, no.4, 1976) and M.H. Halstead (Elements of Software Science, North Holland, NY, 1977).<>