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Best Practices in Software Measurement

How to use metrics to improve project and process performance

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  • © 2005

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Authors:
  1. Christof Ebert

    1. Alcatel, Paris, France

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  2. Manfred Bundschuh

    1. Fachbereich Informatik, Fachhochschule Köln, Gummersbach, Germany

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  3. Reiner Dumke

    1. Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

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  4. Andreas Schmietendorf

    1. T-Systems Nova, Berlin, Germany

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  • Practical approach to software measurement
  • Contains hands-on industry experiences
  • Different companies and background (IT, SW development, Telecom, University, Consulting) present the topic with their respective background
  • Internet support included; contains rich set of useful URLs
  • Many results from practical work included
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-8

  3. Making Metrics a Success — The Business Perspective

    Pages 9-34

  4. Planning the Measurement Process

    Pages 35-47

  5. Performing the Measurement Process

    Pages 49-62

  6. Introducing a Measurement Program

    Pages 63-79

  7. Measurement Infrastructures

    Pages 81-94

  8. Size and Effort Estimation

    Pages 95-114

  9. Project Control

    Pages 115-132

  10. Defect Detection and Quality Improvement

    Pages 133-156

  11. Software Process Improvement

    Pages 157-180

  12. Software Performance Engineering

    Pages 181-201

  13. Service Level Management

    Pages 203-216

  14. Case Study: Building an Intranet Measurement Application

    Pages 217-224

  15. Case Study: Measurements in IT Projects

    Pages 225-242

  16. Case Study: Metrics in Maintenance

    Pages 243-257

  17. Metrics Communities and Resources

    Pages 259-268

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 269-300
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About this book

Not everything that counts can be counted. Not everything that is counted counts. Albert Einstein This is a book about software measurement from the practitioner’s point of view and it is a book for practitioners. Software measurement needs a lot of practical guidance to build upon experiences and to avoid repeating errors. This book t- gets exactly this need, namely to share experiences in a constructive way that can be followed. It tries to summarize experiences and knowledge about software measurement so that it is applicable and repeatable. It extracts experiences and lessons learned from the narrow context of the specific industrial situation, thus facilitating transfer to other contexts. Software measurement is not at a standstill. With the speed software engine- ing is evolving, software measurement has to keep pace. While the underlying theory and basic principles remain invariant in the true sense (after all, they are not specific to software engineering), the application of measurement to specific contexts and situations is continuously extended. The book thus serves as a ref- ence on these invariant principles as well as a practical guidance on how to make software measurement a success.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Alcatel, Paris, France

    Christof Ebert

  • Fachbereich Informatik, Fachhochschule Köln, Gummersbach, Germany

    Manfred Bundschuh

  • Otto-von-Guericke-Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

    Reiner Dumke

  • T-Systems Nova, Berlin, Germany

    Andreas Schmietendorf

About the authors

 

Reiner Dumke is since 1994 a full professor in software engineering at the university of Magdeburg. His research interests include SW metrics, measurement programs, tools, web security and performance engineering. He is speaker of the german Informatics Society (GI) Expert group on Metrics. He has published and lectured extensively on SW metrics and related topics.

Christof Ebert is Director Software Coordination and Process Improvement of Alcatel in Paris, France. He drives R&D innovation and effectiveness programs within Alcatel. Before, he lead the biggest Alcatel Business Unit to CMM L3, achieving substantial quality improvements and cycle time reduction. Dr. Ebert is IEEE Software associate Editor-In-Chief and serves as keynote speaker and on program committees of various software engineering conferences.

Manfred Bundschuh is President of DASMA e.V., the German metrics organisation, as well as appointed Professor for Project Management and Teamwork at the University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Dept. of Informatics and IT Quality Manager in AXA Service AG, Cologne. Manfred Bundschuh is author and editor of several books and more than 40 publications.

Andreas Schmietendorf works as competence manager for system- and software development in the information technology department of Deutsche Telekom AG. As chief architect within the development center Berlin Dr. Schmietendorf is mainly responsible for integration- and migration-projects. He is an active member in the German society of computer science (GI) and the Central Europe Computer Measurement Group (CECMG). Furthermore Dr. Schmietendorf teach as guest-lecturer at the University of Magdeburg and FHTW Berlin (University of applied science).

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