Thirty Years of Software Measurement
Horst Zuse · Deutscher Universitätsverlag eBooks · 1999
From our view, the year 1998 is the 30. anniversary of software measurement. It may be, that the earliest paper about software complexity was published by Rubey et al. [145] in 1968. There is no reference to an earlier publication. Boehm et al. [24], p.B-4, point out about this paper: Many software attributes and their metrics are defined and discussed. There is a total of 57 attributes distributed among seven categories. They are related to mathematical calculations, program logic, computation time and memory usage, program modifiability, etc. The metrics are realized as formulas and are explained in detail . Also in 1971 Knuth [95] published a paper of an empirical investigation of FORTRAN programs. These keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.