Alternative measurement of software artifacts

Software is one of the most complex systems produced by humans. Software development is therefore also complex task and does not result only in production of final software but also produces many additional artifacts. To ensure quality of final product, software development process must be controlled and proper decisions have to be taken at appropriate time. To be able to make such decision tools are required that can measure intermediate results. Therefore metrics are used to determine state of the development process. Most of metrics concentrate on specific artifact at specific project phase. Those metrics give different quantities and can be hardly compared. In this paper, we present alternative metrics for measuring any software artifact in any project phase