New Approaches in Software Measurement

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VIII

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2. Object-Oriented Software Measurement

   1. Impact of Inheritance on Metrics for Size, Coupling, and Cohesion in Object-Oriented Systems

      • Dirk Beyer, Claus Lewerentz, Frank Simon

      Pages 1-17

   2. Measuring Object-Orientedness: The Invocation Profile

      • Peter Rosner, Tracy Hall, Tobias Mayer

      Pages 18-28

   3. CEOS - A Cost Estimation Method for Evolutionary, Object-Oriented Software Development

      • Siar Sarferaz, Wolfgang Hesse

      Pages 29-43

   4. A Measurement Tool for Object Oriented Software and Measurement Experiments with It

      • Xinke Li, Zongtian Liu, Biao Pan, Dahong Xing

      Pages 44-54

3. Investigations in Software Process Improvement

   1. Estimating the Cost of Carrying out Tasks Relating to Performance Engineering

      • Erik Foltin, Andreas Schmietendorf

      Pages 55-72

   2. Measurement in Software Process Improvement Programmes: An Empirical Study

      • Tracy Hall, Nathan Baddoo, David Wilson

      Pages 73-82

   3. Improving Validation Activities in a Global Software Development

      • Christof Ebert, Casimiro Hernandez Parro, Roland Suttels, Harald Kolarczyk

      Pages 83-93

   4. A Generic Model for Assessing Process Quality

      • Manoranjan Satpathy, Rachel Harrison, Colin Snook, Michael Butler

      Pages 94-110

   5. Maturity Evaluation of the Performance Engineering Process

      • Andreas Schmietendorf, André Scholz

      Pages 111-124

4. Function-Point-Based Software Measurement

   1. COSMIC FFP and the World-Wide Field Trials Strategy

      • Alain Abran, S. Oligny, Charles R. Symons

      Pages 125-134

   2. Extraction of Function-Points from Source-Code

      • Harry M. Sneed

      Pages 135-146

   3. Early & Quick COSMIC-FFP Analysis Using Analytic Hierarchy Process

      • Luca Santillo

      Pages 147-160

5. Software Measurement of Special Aspects

   1. Measuring the Ripple Effect of Pascal Programs

      • Sue Black, Francis Clark

      Pages 161-171

   2. An Assessment of the Effects of Requirements Reuse Measurements on the ERP Requirements Engineering Process

      • Maya Daneva

      Pages 172-182

   3. A New Metric-Based Approach for the Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction in the IT Area

      • Reiner R. Dumke, Cornelius Wille

      Pages 183-195

   4. Utility Metrics for Economic Agents

      • Dirk Schmelz, Margitta Schmelz, Julia Schmelz

      Pages 196-204

6. Improving the Software Measurement Process

   1. QF2D: A Different Way to Measure Software Quality

      • Luigi Buglione, Alain Abran

      Pages 205-219

   2. Using FAME Assessments to Define Measurement Goals

      • Dirk Hamann, Andrew Beitz, Markus Müller, Rini van Solingen

      Pages 220-232

   3. Mapping Processes Between Parallel, Hierarchical, and Orthogonal System Representations

      • Francis Dion, Thanh Khiet Tran, Alain Abran

      Pages 233-247

Software measurement is one of the key technologies employed to control and manage the software development process. Research avenues such as the applicability of metrics, the efficiency of measurement programs in industry, and the theoretical foundations (of software engineering?) have been investigated to evaluate and improve modern software development areas such as object-orientation, compone- based develop-ment, multimedia systems design, reliable telecommunication systems etc. In the tradition of our software measurement research communities, the German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group on Software Measurement and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have attended to these concerns in recent years. Initially, research initiatives were directed at the definition of new methods of software measurement and the validation of these methods themselves. This was then followed by more and more investigation into practical applications of software measurement and key findings in this area of software engineering have been published in: - Dumke/Zuse: Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, 1994 - Ebert/Dumke: Software-Metriken in der Praxis, 1996 - Lehner/Dumke/Abran: Software Metrics - Research and Practice in Software Measurement, 1997 - Dumke/Abran: Software Measurement - Current Trends in Research and Practice, 1999 We would also like to mention that the proceedings of the Lac Supérieur workshop have been made available on the web at www. lrgl. uqam. ca? This new book includes the proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Software Measurement held in Berlin in October 2000.

• Requirements Engineering
• Software measurement
• inheritance
• software development
• software engineering
• software maintenance
• software management
• software metrics
• software process
• software projects
• software validation
• validation

• Institut für Verteilte Systeme, Universität Magdeburg, Magdeburg, Germany

  Reiner Dumke

• Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

  Alain Abran

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