8th Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM 2017)
Roberto Tonelli, Steve Counsell, Giuseppe Destefanis, Alessandro Murgia, Ewan D. Tempero · 2017
Summary form only given. WETSoM 2017 Workshop Summary. The International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics, aims at gathering together researchers and practitioners to discuss the progress of software metrics. The motivation for this workshop is the low impact that software metrics has on current software development. The goals of this workshop includes critically examining the evidence for the effectiveness of existing metrics and identifying new directions for metrics. Evidence for existing metrics includes how the metrics have been used in practice and studies showing their effectiveness. Identifying new directions includes use of new theories, such as complex network theory, on which to base metrics.