Articles on Software Metrics, Including - Code Coverage, Software Metric, Source Lines of Code, Cyclomatic Complexity, Ripple Effect, Hackystat, Software Package Metrics, Programming Complexity, Essential Complexity, Duplicate Code (Paperback)

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