Software Quality and Software Metrics

The topic of this course is models for assessment and evaluation of systems quality, and an organisation´s capability to develop software systems with predictable quality. The following is covered: Software metrics, measurement of characteristics of software systems, Capability Maturity Model (CMM), reliability models for software. Planning and executioon of empirical studies. Measurement of internal and external quality attributes.

The objective is to give the students an overview of how to assess the quality of software systems

Lectures, self study, colloquies and exercises. The course is taught every second year, next time autumn 2013.