<P><EM>A Framework for Managing, Measuring, and Predicting Attributes of Software Development Products and Processes<BR></EM>Reflecting the immense progress in the development and use of software metrics in the past decades, <STRONG>Software Metrics: A Rigorous and Practical Approach, Third Edition</STRONG> provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive introduction to software metrics. Like its popular predecessors, this third edition discusses important issues, explains essential concepts, and offers new approaches for tackling long-standing problems.</P><br/><br/><P><EM>New to the Third Edition<BR></EM>This edition contains new material relevant to object-oriented design, design patterns, model-driven development, and agile development processes. It includes a new chapter on causal models and Bayesian networks and their application to software engineering. This edition also incorporates recent references to the latest software metrics activities, including research results, i