Proceedings of the Sixth International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics

Welcome to WETSoM 2015, the 6th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics. Since its first edition WETSoM attracted academic and industrial researchers, in a stimulating atmosphere to discuss the progresses and novelties in software metrics. A key motivation for this workshop is to help overcoming the low impact that software metrics has on current software development, raising the need for empirically evaluating the effectiveness of existing metrics, as well as to identify directions for development of new metrics. This is pursued by critically examining the evidence for the effectiveness of existing metrics and identifying new directions for metrics. Evidence for existing metrics includes how the metrics have been used in practice and studies showing their effectiveness. Identifying new directions includes use of new theories, such as complex network theory, on which to base metrics.