This presentation is about a lecture I gave within the "Green Lab" course of the Computer Science master, Software Engineering and Green IT track of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam: http://masters.vu.nl/en/programmes/computer-science-software-engineering-green-it/index.aspx http://www.ivanomalavolta.com

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Reliable
Easy to measure
How to interpret:
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- several statements on one line
Language dependent
Is it related to complexity?

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Mini-lab

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This is a descriptive study

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Now you know:
● The basics of software measurement theory
● How to define the measurements
○ they will map 1:1 to your experiments variables
IMPORTANT!
The type of your measures will heavily impact
the statistical analysis you will perform

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Chapter 3 Chapter 6
+ the paper we used in the mini-lab
http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2897092