Measurement can be categorized in two ways. Direct measures and indirect measures. Size oriented metrics falls under which category?
Measurement can be categorized in two ways. Direct measures and indirect measures. Size oriented metrics falls under direct category.
Measurements and metrics are an indication of the size, quantity, amount or dimension of a particular attribute of a product or process. For example the number of errors in a system is a measurement. A Metric is a measurement of the degree that any attribute belongs to a system, product or process.
A software metric is a standard of measure of a degree to which a software system or process possesses some property.
Direct measurement refers to measuring exactly the thing that we are looking to measure, while indirect measurement means that we are measuring something by measuring something else.