This volume presents the findings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Metrics. Consequently continuing the Workshop's tradition the focus is on the combination of theoretical and practical contributions. The wide range of topics includes articles on the evaluation of the maintenance process, the measurement of object-oriented software development, metrics for class libraries, and the evaluation of Java-applications.

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Professor Dr. Franz Lehner ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftsinformatik an der Universität Regensburg. Professor Dr. Reiner Dumke lehrt an der Fakultät für Informatik der Universität Magdeburg. Professor Dr. Alain Abran ist Direktor des Software Engineering Management Research Lab. an der Quebec University of Montreal, Kanada.

Inhalt
I. Quality and Measurement of Object-Oriented Software.- Quality and Productivity Improvement in Object-Oriented Software Development.- Automatic Extraction of Object-Oriented Software Metrics.- Really Object-Oriented Software Metrics.- Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach to Function Point Analysis.- II. Internet and World Wide Web.- Efficiency and Maintainability of JAVA Applications.- Design of a Measure to Assess Compliance of Internet Web Sites with Privacy Laws.- III. Software Metrics and Measurement.- Measuring the Size of Small Functional Enhancements to Software.- The Use of Factor Analysis in the Area of Software Metrics.- On a Neural-Fuzzy Technique with GA-Optimization for Software Quality Models.- The Software Measure Information System: ZD-MIS.- IV. Quality Improvement and Validation Process.- Software Quality Improvement by Using an Experience Factory.- Validation Process in Software Engineering: An Example with Function Point.- Applying Knowledge-Based Techniques to Software Quality Management.- Implementation of a Measurement Plan in an Industrial Environment.- List of Contributors.