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Further reading

A most comprehensive and readable book is: N.E. Fenton and S. Lawrence Pfleeger,Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, International ThomsonComputer Press, 1996.McCabe’s famous original cyclomatic complexity is described in this paper: J.T.McCabe, A complexity measure, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, SE-2(4) (December 1976).A well-known book that presents a whole number of ways of measuring software: M.H.Halstead, Elements of Software Science, Elsevier, 1977.A most readable book on software quality. It explains what measures can be used dur-ing each stage of software development: Darrel Ince, Software Quality Assurance: AStudent Introduction, McGraw-Hill, 1995.The seminal book on continuous process improvement: W. Edwards Deming, Out ofthe crisis: quality, productivity and competitive position, Cambridge University Press,