Productive capacity of a system for software development

✍ Scribed by Mario Italiani

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1984
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 686 KB
• Volume: 7
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0378-7206
• DOI: 10.1016/0378-7206(84)90049-1

✦ Synopsis

Economic aspects of software production make it necessary to evaluate the performance of a Systems for Software Development (SSD) in a methodical manner.

In this article, the resources (people, tools, services, etc.) of an SSD are first analyzed using a method based on Conuentional Experience and Relative Capacity and introducing a Working Enuironment Quality Coefficient. The workload of an SSD is also considered, and for this a Workload matrix involving development activities is introduced. Evaluation of the Productive Capacity of an SSD thus takes into account both the resources and the workload of the system.