Abstract
Abstract : The Rome Air Development Center has developed the Software Quality Framework as a means to specify software quality goals and measure software quality. Much of the work to date has focused on metrics applicable to software code. This report describes an effort undertaken to measure the quality of software products earlier in the software development life cycle, during the design phase, and to automate the capture of metric data from design media. Metrics of software quality, primarily those related to the criterion simplicity (or conversely, complexity), were reviewed. This review includes those metrics previously developed in the Software Quality Framework. Two metrics, Halstead's Software Science and McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity were chosen for their amenability to measurement during design and their potential for automation. Two design media were used: Design Aids for Real-Time Systems, an experimental automated design tool developed at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory; and Ada as a program design language.
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