Best Practices In Software Measurement

Practical approach to software measurement Contains hands-on industry experiences

Practical approach to software measurement Contains hands-on industry experiences

In this comprehensive introduction to software measurement, Ebert and Dumke detail knowledge and experiences about the subject in an easily understood, hands-on presentation. The book describes software measurement in theory and practice as well as provides guidance to all relevant measurement tools and online references. In addition, it presents hands-on experience from industry leaders and provides many examples and case studies from Global 100 companies. Besides the many practical hints and checklists, readers will also appreciate the large reference list, which includes links to metrics communities where project experiences are shared.

The first section defines exactly what I mean by the term ?Software Metrics? and introduces the reader to the domain of Software Metrics by discussing the need for a measurement-based approach to the management of software engineering. This first section then, for reasons which will become obvious, looks at a particular measurement technique ? Function Point Analysis ? before discussing specific areas of application for Software Metrics.The second section is really the core of the book. This section describes an approach to the development and implementation of Software Metrics initiatives. Essentially, the approach centers around a model that breaks the work into a number of stages. This division of labor into phases is, of course, nothing more than the way in which most successful projects are handled; it is what makes up those stages that I hope will be found beneficial.The third section is a collection of chapters that belong in this book, but do not sit naturally in either of the other two sections. Here we visit the topics that seem to be generating discussion today and we will also look at some topics that may be key issues in the near future. Appendices and references are also provided.

Practical approach to software measurement Contains hands-on industry experiences

PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF MEASUREMENT AND EXPERIMENTATION 1. Measurement: What Is It and Why Do It? 2. The Basics of Measurement 3. A Goal-Based Framework for Software Measurement 4. Empirical Investigation 5. Software Metrics Data Collection 6. Analyzing Software-Measurement Data PART II: SOFTWARE-ENGINEERING MEASUREMENT 7. Measuring Internal Product Attributes: Size 8. Measuring Internal Product Attributes: Structure 9. Measuring Internal Product Attributes 10. Software Reliability: Measurement and Prediction 11. Resource Measurement: Productivity, Teams, and Tools 12. Making Process Predictions PART III: MEASUREMENT AND MANAGEMENT 13. Planning a Measurement Program 14. Measurement in Practice 15. Empirical Research in Software Engineering APPENDIXES: A. Solutions to Selected Exercises / B. Metric Tools / C. Acronyms and Glossary / ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY / INDEX

Teaching software professionals how to combine assessments (qualitative information) and benchmarking (quantitative information) this text aims to encourage better software analysis.

The widespread deployment of millions of current and emerging software applications has placed software economic studies among the most critical of any form of business analysis. Unfortunately, a lack of an integrated suite of metrics makes software economic analysis extremely difficult.The International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), a nonpro