Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and QualityIn its first edition, this groundbreaking book was credited with helping to define the science of software measurement, which is today accepted as the best method of ensuring productivity and quality control. The use of function point metrics in particular, discussed at length in the original edition, has grown enormously in the United States as well as other countries. But, in the five years since Applied Software Measurement became a must-read in the literature of information systems, a host of new technologies, methods, and paradigms have made the subject of metrics - and its applications - considerably more challenging and complex. Now this substantial revision of Capers Jones' classic work sheds light on the massive changes in software measurement that have been occasioned by these many technical advances, and also by such major contemporary trends as outsourcing and business process reengineering. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The History and Evolution of Functional Metrics | 47 |
United States Averages for Software | 141 |
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320 FUNCTION POINT activities algorithms applications baseline analysis benchmark bugs chart of accounts client-server clients Cobol commercial software companies complexity corporate cost counting cyclomatic complexity defect removal efficiency design inspections documentation domain effort end-user enterprises environment factors feature points files function point metric FUNCTION POINT PAYROLL function point total functional metrics Hewlett-Packard IFPUG inputs joint application design KLOC label MIS EXAMPLE level NONE Project lines of code maintenance normal outputs Outsource overall PAYROLL PROGRAM Location percent personnel POINT PAYROLL PROGRAM productivity and quality productivity rates PROGRAM Location BOSTON programming languages project management Project s:\tmp\mcgraw Version quality assurance requirements s:\tmp\mcgraw Version label schedules Security level significant soft software engineering Software Engineering Institute software measurement Software Metrics Software Productivity Research software quality source code specialists staff month systems software Table technologies Unit testing user satisfaction Version label MIS Yes Yes Yes