Introduction to software metrics and measurements - Motivation: Why metrics and measurements in the software engineering? A brief historical overview of the field, achievements and significant figures. Relationships among other areas of software engineering. Overview of standards and recommendations in this area. Metrics and Models - The role and significance of the model. Overview of different models. Measurement scales. Techniques for monitoring and tracking of time and cost of software projects. Models for estimating resources - Modeling the distribution of effort at different stages of software development. Effort estimation models with one variable (regression models). Models for estimation of effort and time. Metrics and models for the measurement of processes and products – Software Product Measures: metric size and complexity of software artifacts. Modeling and measuring process. Modeling the distribution of defects in software products. Statistical Process Control. Object- oriented metrics and models. Framework for defining metrics and models - Overview of relevant standards and good engineering practices. Paradigms for defining software metrics and models (i.e. the goal - driven approach). Techniques of data collection, interpretive models and data analysis. Establishing a measurement program - Defining the measurement process, operational measurement plan. Monitoring measurement activities. Analysis and presentation of measurement results.