Metrics of Software Quality.

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Abstract:

This report covers the period from 1 June 1977 to 30 October 1980. A major task on this contract was to make a comprehensive review of the literature on software metrics and of quantitative measures of program testing. Another accomplishment was the development of an automatic procedure for testing FORTRAN programs with random numbers and random symbols. This procedure first drives the program with sets of random data, then senses the tracks taken, compares each generated track against all predecessors, then on the basis of the pattern of occurrence of new tracks, provides an estimate of the total number of residual paths. Additional sets of random numbers can be then generated. The program developed to instrument a given FORTRAN program and provide data for evaluating coverage is described in the Final Report of earlier work MDC G6553, dated December 1976. Changes which have been made are described herein. In the related topics of Software Reliability, two methods of estimating the residual error content of an entire program on the basis of data obtained in the testing of portions of it have been developed and are detailed here. Author

Author(s):
Jelinski, Zygmund ; Moranda, P. B. ; Churchwell, J. B.
Author Organization(s):
MCDONNELL DOUGLAS ASTRONAUTICS CO HUNTINGTON BEACH CA
Descriptive Note:
Final rept.,
Supplementary Note:
See also Rept. nos. MDC-G517, AD-A065 196 and MDC-G6533. DOI: 10.21236/ADA093788
Pagination:
0140

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DOCUMENT & CONTEXTUAL SUMMARY

Distribution:
Approved For Public Release

RECORD

Collection: TR
Identifying Numbers
Report Number(s):
MDC-G9326, AFOSR-TR-80-1376
Contract/Grant Number(s):
F49620-77-C-0099
Task Number(s):
A2
Project Number(s):
2304
Monitor Series:
TR-80-1376
 Subject Terms
Joint Capability Areas:
JCA_5_Command and Control; JCA_5.6.1_Assess Compliance with Guidance; JCA_5.6_Monitor; JCA_5.3_Planning; JCA_1_Force Support; JCA_1.2_Force Preparation; JCA_4.3_Maintain; JCA_1.1_Force Management; JCA_5.4_Decide; JCA_1.2.6_Concepts; JCA_6.3.3_Spectrum Management; JCA_6_Net Centric; JCA_1.2.2_Exercising; JCA_5.5.2_Task; JCA_5.5_Direct; JCA_1.2.5_Lessons Learned; JCA_1.3_Human Capital Management; JCA_4_Logistics; JCA_1.3.2_Personnel Management; JCA_6.3_Net Management; JCA_1.2.3_Educating
Modernization Areas:
Fully Networked C3
Communities of Interest:
C4I
Descriptor(s):
*COMPUTER PROGRAMMING, *TEST METHODS, *COMPUTER PROGRAM VERIFICATION, COMPUTER PROGRAMS, COMPUTER PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION, SPECIFICATIONS, PARAMETERS, FORTRAN, RELIABILITY, ERROR ANALYSIS, QUALITY CONTROL, USER NEEDS
Field(s)/Group(s):
Computer Programming and Software
Keyword(s):
Testing tools, Software metrics, WUAFOSR2304A2, PE61102F
Report Date:
1980 Nov 01