Jones, Capers. Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality, 2d ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 1997. Jones is a leader in software measurement, and his book is an accumulation of knowledge in this area. It provides the definitive theory and practice of current measurement techniques and describes problems with traditional measurements. It lays out a full program for collecting “function-point metrics.” Jones has collected and analyzed a huge amount of quality and productivity data, and this book distills the results in one place — including a fascinating chapter on averages
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