Metrics used in your PhD (Score 1)

There is plenty of good material posted here...I would say you probably need to take a step back. What are the metrics you want to use? Are they relevant? Why - or why not? What are the strengths and weaknesses of each? That is probably a PhD thesis in its own right. I would argue that this is largely defined by the domain in which you are working. In the case of my doctorate (in industrial automation), I decided that code was largely irrelevant - and what was of most importance was the process. Conversely, another member of the research group chose to look at the same codes - but by applying a series of standard software engineering metrics. It doesn't matter which way you go, provided you have justification for your approach. Off course you need to do better than reference an open forum on slashdot ;-) There's an article in the forthcoming articles in the IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering which might give you more detail on what I'm getting at...