As software development gradually evolves from art toward engineering, more and more developers appreciate the importance of measuring the work they do. While software metrics can help you understand and improve your work, implementing a metrics program is a challenge. Both the technical and the human aspects of software measurement are difficult to manage.

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Digital rights management (DRM) is the umbrella term referring to any of several technologies used to enforce pre-defined policies controlling access to software, music, movies, or other digital data. In more technical terms, DRM handles the description, layering, analysis, valuation, trading and monitoring of the rights held over a digital work. In the widest possible [...]