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The Computer Journal 1986 29(4):330-339; doi:10.1093/comjnl/29.4.330
© 1986 by British Computer Society
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Axiomatic approach to Software Metrication through Program Decomposition

N. E. Fenton1 * and R. W. Whitty2

1 Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polytechnic of the South Bank, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA, UK, 2 Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of London Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK

Software metrication is a major problem in the engineering of software and software-related systems. To give coherence to attempts at metrication and to allow convincing statistical validation of these attempts it is proposed to axiomatise assumptions made about software parameters and ‘complexity’. The axioms are intrinsically related to the ‘decomposition hierarchy’ of programs, and this important notion is formalised in this paper for arbitrary programs.

Received August 1985.

* Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Polytechnic of the South Bank, Borough Road, London SE1 0AA

§ Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of London Goldsmiths' College, New Cross, London SE14 6NW

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