Editing Software metric (section)

== Limitations ==
As software development is a complex process, with high variance on both methodologies and objectives, it is difficult to define or measure software qualities and quantities and to determine a valid and concurrent measurement metric, especially when making such a prediction prior to the detail design. Another source of difficulty and debate is in determining which metrics matter, and what they mean.<ref name="integration_watch"/><ref name="when_why_how">{{cite web|last=Kolawa|first=Adam|title=When, Why, and How: Code Analysis|url=https://www.codeproject.com/Articles/28440/When-Why-and-How-Code-Analysis|work=The Code Project|date=7 August 2008|access-date=14 February 2021}}</ref>
The practical utility of software measurements has therefore been limited to the following domains:
* [[Schedule (project management)|Scheduling]]
* [[Software sizing]]
* [[Programming complexity]]
* [[Software development effort estimation]]
* [[Software quality]]

A specific measurement may target one or more of the above aspects, or the balance between them, for example as an indicator of team motivation or project performance.
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Additionally metrics vary between static and dynamic program code, as well as for object oriented software (systems).<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Gosain|first1=Anjana|last2=Sharma|first2=Ganga|title=Information Systems Design and Intelligent Applications |chapter=Dynamic Software Metrics for Object Oriented Software: A Review |date=2015|editor-last=Mandal|editor-first=J. K.|editor2-last=Satapathy|editor2-first=Suresh Chandra|editor3-last=Kumar Sanyal|editor3-first=Manas|editor4-last=Sarkar|editor4-first=Partha Pratim|editor5-last=Mukhopadhyay|editor5-first=Anirban|chapter-url=https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-81-322-2247-7_59|series=Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing|volume=340|language=en|location=New Delhi|publisher=Springer India|pages=579–589|doi=10.1007/978-81-322-2247-7_59|isbn=978-81-322-2247-7}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=S|first1=Parvinder Singh|title=Dynamic Metrics for Polymorphism in Object Oriented Systems|last2=Singh|first2=Gurdev|citeseerx=10.1.1.193.4307}}</ref>