The product of many years of practical experience and research in the business of software measurement, this technical reference will help you select what metrics to collect, how to convert measurement data to management information, and provides the statistics necessary to perform the conversion. The author explains how to manage the measurement system software development, how to build software and standard measurement tools, and how to build a controlled experiment using a standard measurement tools.There three fundamental questions which this book seeks to answer. By showing how to develop simple experiments for empirical validation of theoretical research and shows how to convert measurement data into meaningful and valuable information, grow this text is more appropriate to use measurement software in computer science and software engineering literature. Software Engineering Measurement shows you how to convert your measurement data to valuable information that can be used immediately for software process improvement.