Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering or Trading and Exchanges

Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering

Author: Stephen H Kan

"This is the single best book on software quality engineering and metrics that I've encountered."
--Capers Jones, from the Foreword

Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, Second Edition, is the definitive book on this essential topic of software development. Comprehensive in scope with extensive industry examples, it shows how to measure software quality and use measurements to improve the software development process. Four major categories of quality metrics and models are addressed: quality management, software reliability and projection, complexity, and customer view. In addition, the book discusses the fundamentals of measurement theory, specific quality metrics and tools, and methods for applying metrics to the software development process.

New chapters bring coverage of critical topics, including:

• In-process metrics for software testing
• Metrics for object-oriented software development
• Availability metrics
• Methods for conducting in-process quality assessments and software project assessments
• Dos and Don'ts of Software Process Improvement, by Patrick O'Toole
• Using Function Point Metrics to Measure Software Process Improvement, by Capers Jones

In addition to the excellent balance of theory, techniques, and examples, this book is highly instructive and practical, covering one of the most important topics in software development--quality engineering.

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Teaches techniques for measuring and improving the quality of the software development process from high-level to low-level design and all phases of reliability. Covers software metrics, reliability models, and models and analysis of program complexity, and discusses in-process metrics, defect removal, and customer satisfaction. Includes case examples from major computer companies and the NASA Software Engineering laboratory. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
Ch. 1	What Is Software Quality?	1
Ch. 2	Software Development Process Models	13
Ch. 3	Fundamentals in Measurement Theory	53
Ch. 4	Software Quality Metrics	83
Ch. 5	Applying the Seven Basic Quality Tools in Software Development	127
Ch. 6	Defect Removal Effectiveness	151
Ch. 7	The Rayleigh Model	177
Ch. 8	Exponential Distribution and Reliability Growth Models	197
Ch. 9	Quality Management Models	219
Ch. 10	Complexity Metrics and Models	253
Ch. 11	Measuring and Analyzing Customer Satisfaction	273
Ch. 12	AS/400 Software Quality Management	295
Ch. 13	Concluding Remarks	331
	Index	341

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Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners

Author: Larry Harris

This book is about trading, the people who trade securities and contracts, the marketplaces where they trade, and the rules that govern it. Readers will learn about investors, brokers, dealers, arbitrageurs, retail traders, day traders, rogue traders, and gamblers; exchanges, boards of trade, dealer networks, ECNs (electronic communications networks), crossing markets, and pink sheets. Also covered in this text are single price auctions, open outcry auctions, and brokered markets limit orders, market orders, and stop orders. Finally, the author covers the areas of program trades, block trades, and short trades, price priority, time precedence, public order precedence, and display precedence, insider trading, scalping, and bluffing, and investing, speculating, and gambling.

Table of Contents:

1	Introduction	3
2	Trading Stories	11
Pt. I	The Structure of Trading
3	The Trading Industry	32
4	Orders and Order Properties	68
5	Market Structures	89
6	Order-driven Markets	112
7	Brokers	139
Pt. II	The Benefits of Trade
8	Why People Trade	176
9	Good Markets	202
Pt. III	Speculators
10	Informed Traders and Market Efficiency	222
11	Order Anticipators	245
12	Bluffers and Market Manipulation	259
Pt. IV	Liquidity Suppliers
13	Dealers	278
14	Bid/Ask Spreads	297
15	Block Traders	322
16	Value Traders	338
17	Arbitrageurs	347
18	Buy-Side Traders	380
Pt. V	Origins of Liquidity and Volatility
19	Liquidity	394
20	Volatility	410
Pt. VI	Evaluation and Prediction
21	Liquidity and Transaction Cost Measurement	420
22	Performance Evaluation and Prediction	442
Pt. VII	Market Structures
23	Index and Portfolio Markets	484
24	Specialists	494
25	Internalization, Preferencing, and Crossing	514
26	Competition Within and Among Markets	524
27	Floor Versus Automated Trading Systems	543
28	Bubbles, Crashes, and Circuit Breakers	555
29	Insider Trading	584
	Bibliography	601
	Index	619