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== Acceptance and public opinion == Some software development practitioners point out that simplistic measurements can cause more harm than good.<ref>{{citation |last=Kaner|first=Dr. Cem|title=Software Engineer Metrics: What do they measure and how do we know?|year=2004|citeseerx=10.1.1.1.2542}}</ref> Others have noted that metrics have become an integral part of the software development process.<ref name="integration_watch">{{cite web|last=Binstock|first=Andrew|title=Integration Watch: Using metrics effectively|url=http://www.sdtimes.com/link/34157|work=SD Times|date=March 2010|publisher=BZ Media |access-date=19 October 2010}}</ref> Impact of measurement on programmer psychology have raised concerns for harmful effects to performance due to stress, performance anxiety, and attempts to cheat the metrics, while others find it to have positive impact on developers value towards their own work, and prevent them being undervalued. Some argue that the definition of many measurement methodologies are imprecise, and consequently it is often unclear how tools for computing them arrive at a particular result,<ref>{{citation|first1=Rüdiger|last1=Lincke|first2=Jonas|last2=Lundberg|first3=Welf|last3=Löwe|title=Comparing software metrics tools|year=2008|work=International Symposium on Software Testing and Analysis 2008|pages=131–142|url=http://www.arisa.se/files/LLL-08.pdf}}</ref> while others argue that imperfect quantification is better than none (“You can’t control what you can't measure.”).<ref>{{cite book | last = DeMarco | first = Tom | author-link = Tom DeMarco | title = Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation | year = 1982 | publisher = Yourdon Press | isbn = 0-13-171711-1}}</ref> Evidence shows that software metrics are being widely used by government agencies, the US military, NASA,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/esdswg/metrics-planning-and-reporting-mparwg |title=NASA Metrics Planning and Reporting Working Group (MPARWG) |publisher=Earthdata.nasa.gov |access-date=2013-05-19 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111022023020/https://earthdata.nasa.gov/our-community/esdswg/metrics-planning-and-reporting-mparwg |archive-date=2011-10-22 }}</ref> IT consultants, academic institutions,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://sunset.usc.edu/csse/research/COCOMOII/cocomo_main.html |title=USC Center for Systems and Software Engineering |publisher=Sunset.usc.edu |access-date=2013-05-19}}</ref> and commercial and academic [[Comparison of development estimation software|development estimation software]].
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