Magnus and I were at the university today with two tasks in mind; first of all to find some papers on Software Metrics (especially IEEE publications), and secondly to see if we were able to find some of the books that Dag showed us at the meeting the other day.

We searched the university library, the local library in Linköping and even the local library in Norrköping - but none of the titles listed in my literature list (or those listed in an earlier blog post) were to be found. So we have to rely on Dag or Nils now to provide us with VSTS/TFS reading material. We've done what we could.

The day was not a total waste though. We managed to print loads of (and I mean loads of) IEEE papers on Software Metrics. This evening I've spent most of my time reading about NASA's Software Metric Program, their definitions and evaluation methods and so forth. There were a lot of exciting papers which will be read before friday. among them are titles such as "Coordinate Metris and Process Model to Manage Software Project Risk", "A Software Metrics Program", "Software Metrics - An Introduction", "The danger of using axioms in software metrics", Re-planning for a Successful Project Schedule", "Metrology, Measurement and Metrics in Software Engineering", "Metrics for Managing Customer View of Software Quality", "Experiences of collecting and using Software Metrics in Industy", "An Empirical Study of Software Metrics", and so forth. The list could almost go on forever. Of course I will publish a list of all relevant papers with title, author, etc. But not tonight :-)

These paper will serve as a scientific foundation to base our definition of code metrics and its use on. Hopefully we will have something concrete to report soon. I've set an internal deadline for myself to finish reading these papers thursday evening, and come to some personal conclusion (which I will then discuss with Magnus so we could unify our separate results).