Regression Control Charts to Manage Software Maintenance

✍ Scribed by HAWORTH, DWIGHT A.

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 841 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1040-550X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-908x(199601)8:1<35::aid-smr124>3.0.co;2-#

✦ Synopsis

The motivation for applying control chart techniques to software processes is briefly discussed. The shortcomings of a multiple regression control chart are reviewed and a visual-programming solution application is demonstrated. In it, a multiple regression model for software maintenance is used based on general metrics and measures locally obtainable from available computer programs. The construction of the application solution is discussed in detail. The resulting solution application is not an estimating program. Rather, it is an easy-to-use analysis program. It can be used to evaluate completed software maintenance work, and to collect data for maintenance management and for longitudinal studies. It makes a powerful quality control tool available to managers of complex software maintenance processes that are appropriately modelled with multiple regression.