Software Metrics: Research and Practice in Software Measurement

✍ Scribed by Roland Hubig, Ivan Morschel (auth.), Professor Dr. Franz Lehner, Reiner Dumke, Alain Abran (eds.)

• Publisher: Deutscher Universitätsverlag
• Year: 1997
• Tongue: German
• Leaves: 228
• Series: Information Engineering und IV-Controlling
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This volume presents the findings of the 6th International Workshop on Software Metrics. Consequently continuing the Workshop’s tradition the focus is on the combination of theoretical and practical contributions. The wide range of topics includes articles on the evaluation of the maintenance process, the measurement of object-oriented software development, metrics for class libraries, and the evaluation of Java-applications.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Quality and Productivity Improvement in Object-Oriented Software Development....Pages 3-13
Automatic Extraction of Object-Oriented Software Metrics....Pages 15-25
Really Object-Oriented Software Metrics....Pages 27-58
Mapping the OO-Jacobson Approach to Function Point Analysis....Pages 59-73
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Efficiency and Maintainability of JAVA Applications....Pages 77-93
Design of a Measure to Assess Compliance of Internet Web Sites with Privacy Laws....Pages 95-107
Front Matter....Pages 109-109
Measuring the Size of Small Functional Enhancements to Software....Pages 111-121
The Use of Factor Analysis in the Area of Software Metrics....Pages 123-130
On a Neural-Fuzzy Technique with GA-Optimization for Software Quality Models....Pages 131-137
The Software Measure Information System ZD-MIS....Pages 139-164
Front Matter....Pages 165-165
Software Quality Improvement by using an Experience Factory....Pages 167-182
Validation Process in Software Engineering: An example with Function Point....Pages 183-191
Applying Knowledge-Based Techniques to Software Quality Management....Pages 193-210
Implementation of a Measurement Plan in an Industrial Environment....Pages 211-228
Back Matter....Pages 229-232

✦ Subjects

Economics/Management Science, general