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How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure

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Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2006)

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Quantification is key to controlling system performance attributes. This paper describes how to quantify performance requirements using Planguage - a specification language developed by the author. It discusses in detail how to develop and use tailored scales of measure.

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Joaquim Filipe Boris Shishkov Markus Helfert

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Gilb, T. (2008). How to Quantify Quality: Finding Scales of Measure. In: Filipe, J., Shishkov, B., Helfert, M. (eds) Software and Data Technologies. ICSOFT 2006. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70621-2_3

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