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.

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.