Helping physical scientists and computer scientists understand one another a little bit better so that metrology (the science of measurement) and science generally (the system of human knowledge) will be more cohesive across disciplines
This is the repository of the software metrology project of the Information Technology Laboratory of the US National Institute of Standards and Technology.
Measurements of software:
- NIST IR 8289, Quantities and Units for Software Product
Measurements (2020)
- Related: A system of quantities from software metrology, Measurement (2021)
- NIST IR 8101, A rational foundation for software metrology (2016)
- NIST IR 8456, What does the pixel measure? (2023)
- Presentation, Mostly sunny with a chance of cyber (2016)
- Bad Security Metrics Part 1: Problems, IT Professional (2018)
- Bad Security Metrics Part 2: Solutions, IT Professional (2018)
- NIST TN 1990, 'Software Science' revisited: rationalizing Halstead's system using dimensionless units (2018)
General metrology:
- Unit one is intrusive, Metrologia (2024)
- NIST TN 1943, Architecture for software-assisted quantity
calculus (2016) and its
derivative works:
- Redressing grievances with the treatment of dimensionless quantities in SI, Measurement (2017)
- Architecture for software-assisted quantity calculus, Computer Standards & Interfaces (2017)
- Dealing with counts and other quantal quantities in quantity calculus, Measurement (2023)
Metrological concepts and vocabulary:
- NIST IR 8530, A unified model of core metrological concepts (2024)
- NIST IR 8368, Ambiguity of the term quantity value in metrology (2021)
- NIST TN 2034, Defining 'kind of quantity' (2019)
For older related work, see the software performance project.