The document discusses software metrics and quality assurance. It provides recommendations for reference books on the topics and their relevant chapters. It defines software metrics as attributes that measure a software program's length, functionality, reuse, and faults. Quality assurance ensures a software program's fitness for purpose, conformance to specifications, and excellence. The document also discusses the importance of measurement in software engineering for understanding processes, estimating costs, and evaluating quality. It provides examples of the types of information needed from manager and engineering perspectives to control software development. Finally, it introduces the representational theory of measurement and its key aspects of empirical relations, mapping rules, and representation conditions.