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Rome Laboratory is a U.S. Air Force laboratory within the Air Force Material Command that plans and executes an interdisciplinary program in research, development, testing, and technology transition in support of Air Force Command Control, Communications and Intelligence activities for all Air Force platforms. Rome Laboratory has conducted an extensive research and development effort into the identification and measurement of software quality characteristics for the past twenty years and is considered by most experts as the international leader in this field. The authors have built upon this foundation and their own experience as practitioners of software quality measurement via the Rome Laboratory Framework. They have successfully applied this methodology in the industrial and scientific communities for the past fifteen years. This paper describes, based on a series of lessons learned, techniques for implementing a software quality measurement (metric) program toreal software development applications in areal competitive environment. Reference is made to results obtained in past applications and to a recently released guidebook for applying the framework. Potential problem areas are defined, concerns listed, background information given, case histories discussed, and guidebook topics outlined.
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Murine, G.E., Murine, B.J. Implementing a software quality metric program based on the Rome Laboratory initiatives. Ann Software Eng 1, 155–177 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02249050
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