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Metrics are essential part of any software development organization to improve the quality of software. Measurement of a software process is a pre-requisite for planning and monitoring of cost effective test strategy. The analysis of trend shown by the metrics gives a way to take appropriate action for the process improvement and provide confidence in the software. Though various metrics exist for each phase of software life cycle but substantial work is needed in testing phase in particular.
This paper surveys and classifies various testing metrics. It also proposes some new software product testing metrics. The proposed metrics are analyzed over project data given by NASA[1].
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Singh, Y., Kaur, A., Suri, B. (2008). An Empirical Study of Product Metrics in Software Testing. In: Iskander, M. (eds) Innovative Techniques in Instruction Technology, E-learning, E-assessment, and Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8739-4_12
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