The objectives of the software metrics program of the SATC encompass three areas:

• Quality Assessment
• Risk Management and Control
• Process Improvement

To accomplish these objectives, the SATC works with project managers and developers (both NASA and contractor) to collect measurements and develop metrics that assist them in evaluating the quality of the products (requirement documents, design documents, code, test plans, etc.) and the risks to their projects.

The SATC has been successful in disseminating results and knowledge through paper presentations, technical papers, and tutorials at various conferences and workshops. For a complete listing of these presentations, papers and tutorials, please reference the SATC Support and Outreach page. Text of many of the papers is available on-line. 

The SATC has been collecting code metrics for over 7 years.  SATC has  metrics for 7 programming languages, both non-object oriented and object-oriented metrics.  Click here to view the SATC Code Metric Historical Database.

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