Software Process and Product Measurement: International Conferences IWSM 2009 and Mensura 2009 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 4-6, 2009. Proceedings

ISBN-13: 9783642054143 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 347 str.

Alain Abran;René Braungarten;Reiner R. Dumke

Opis

Since 1990 the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM)has th been held annually and is now in its 19 edition. The International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura) was initiated in 2006 and is now in its third edition. The editions of IWSM/Mensura have been c- bined since 2007 to foster research, practice and exchange of experiences and best practices in software processes and products measurement. The 2009 e- tionswereheldduringNovember4-6,2009inAmsterdam, organizedjointlywith 1 The Netherlands Association for Software Measurement (NESMA) and kindly 2 hosted by Hogeschool van Amsterdam . Today the pressure for more e?cient software development processes del- ering appropriate quality is constantly increasing. But who knows how e?cient one's own current development process actually is and whether the quality of delivered products is really appropriate? Did we substantially improve with all the improvement e?ort spent? How can we answer all these questions if not by measuring both software processes and software products? Softwaremeasurement is a key technologywith which to manageand to c- trol software development projects. Measurement is essential of any engineering activity, by increasing the scienti?c and technical knowledge for both the pr- tice of software development and for empirical research in software technology. IWSM/MENSURAfacilitatestheexchangeofsoftwaremeasurementexperiences between theory and practice. Softwareprocessevaluationandimprovementrequirequanti?edmethodsand technologies. Issues such as the applicability of measures and metrics to so- ware, the e?ciency of measurement programs in industry and the theoretical foundations of software engineering have been researched in order to evaluate and improve modern software development approaches.

Spis treści

IWSM / Mensura 2009 Proceedings.- Ensuring Reliability of Information Provided by Measurement Systems.- Analysis of the Functional Size Measurement Methods Usage by Polish Business Software Systems Providers.- Leveraging People-Related Maturity Issues for Achieving Higher Maturity and Capability Levels.- A General Model for Measurement Improvement.- What Are the Significant Cost Drivers for COSMIC Functional Size Based Effort Estimation?.- Analysis of the Risk Assessment Methods – A Survey.- Cockpit Based Management Architectures.- A Case Study in COSMIC Functional Size Measurement: The Rice Cooker Revisited.- Functional Size of a Real-Time System.- A Prototypical Simulation Model to Analyze the Business Process Performance.- Improvement Opportunities and Suggestions for Benchmarking.- Functional Size Measurement Quality Challenges for Inexperienced Measurers.- Applying Test Case Metrics in a Tool Supported Iterative Architecture and Code Improvement Process.- Towards an Early Software Effort Estimation Based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.- Formalization Studies in Functional Size Measurement: How Do They Help?.- Using Models to Develop Measurement Systems: A Method and Its Industrial Use.- Evaluating Process Quality Based on Change Request Data – An Empirical Study of the Eclipse Project.- Empirical Evaluation of Hunk Metrics as Bug Predictors.- Using Support Vector Regression for Web Development Effort Estimation.- A Comparison of Neural Network Model and Regression Model Approaches Based on Sub-functional Components.- Formal Definition of Measures for BPMN Models.- Using Tabu Search to Estimate Software Development Effort.- An Experimental Study on the Reliability of COSMIC Measurement Results.- Assessing the Documentation Development Effort in Software Projects.

Blurb

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two joint events - the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2009 and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2009.

The 24 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from numerous submissions for inclusion in the book. This book considers issues such as the applicability of measures and metrics to software, the efficiency of measurement programs in industry and the theoretical foundations of software engineering.