Designed to conform to the ISO/IEC standard 14143, the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) Function Point method has become the major estimation technique based on international standards for building software-intensive systems. COSMIC Function Points: Theory and Advanced Practices supplies a cutting-edge look at current and emerging practices in the international software measurement community. The editors have assembled an international panel of experts who detail the steps for measuring the functional size of software and developing project estimates with improved accuracy. They explain how to evaluate and compare systems to improve software reuse and development. Touching on the essential aspects of the next generation of functional size measurement methods, the book delineates best estimation and measurement practices as well as the development of benchmarks for quality improvement, including Six Sigma. This complete resource covers software measurement and estimation methods and practices for embedded systems, business applications, communications software, and control systems. Each chapter supplies the practical understanding required to create, implement, standardize, distribute, and adapt functional size measurement and project estimation to virtually any software context. Praise for: ... an excellent overview ... provides a strong knowledge background for both practitioners and researchers. ... With its broad background, it is useful for practically implementing and successfully adapting other functional sizing methods ... . The COSMIC function point techniques presented in this book will help you to implement, master, and improve your estimation process.-Christof Ebert, Managing Director, Vector Consulting Services

th The purpose of the 8 Conference on Software Engineering Research, Mana- ment and Applications (SERA 2010) held on May 24 - 26, 2010 in Montreal, Canada was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and ent- preneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer s- ence, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. Our conference officers selected the best 16 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review. In Chapter 1, Emil Vassev and Serguei Mokhov discuss their work in creating a Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework capable of self-healing using the Autonomic System Specification Language. In Chapter 2, Yuhong Yan et al. present a new model of the Web Service Com- sition Problem and propose a reparative method based on planning graphs. In Chapter 3, Chandan Sarkar et al. explore options for conducting remote usab- ity tests using their newly-developed Total Cost of Administration (TCA) tool to collect and analyze test results. In Chapter 4, Idir Ait-Sadoune and Yamine Ait-Ameur focus on the formal - scription, modeling, and validation of web services compositions and suggest a refinement based method that encodes the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) model's decompositions.

Since 1990 the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) has been celebrated annually in Montr eal (Qu ebec), Canada, and di?erent places all over Germany by turns. The Montr eal editions were organized by the Soft- 1 ware Engineering Research Laboratory (GELOG) of the Ecole de technologie sup erieure (ETS) at the University of Qu ebec at Montr eal (UQAM), which is directed by Professor Alain Abran. The German editions were organized 2 jointly by the Software Measurement Laboratory (SMLAB) of the Otto-von- Guericke-UniversityMagdeburg, Germany, whichisdirectedbyProfessorReiner R. Dumke; and the German-speaking user association for software metrics and 3 e?ort estimation (DASMA e. V.) . Partially, the editions of IWSM were held jointly with the DASMA Software Metrik Kongress (MetriKon). 4 Organized by an initiative of Jos e Javier Dolado from the University of 5 the Basque Country at San Sebastian and Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego from the University of Alcal a in Madrid the ?rst edition of the International Conference onSoftwareMeasurement(Mensura) couldbe convenedin C adiz, Spainin 2006. Motivated by this success and with the ?rst edition of Mensura ?nding special approval, the organizers of IWSM and Mensura decided to complement each other and, thus, to organize the next conference edition together. In November 2007, the typical convention month for both conferences, that joint conference was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain."

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2000, held in Berlin, Germany in October 2000.The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on object-oriented software measurement, software process improvement, function-point-based software measurement, software measurement of special aspects, improving the software measurement process.

Software developers are faced with the challenge of making software systems and products of ever greater quality and safety, while at the same time being faced with the growing pressure of costs reduction in order to gain and maintain competitive advantages. As in any scientific and engineering discipline, reliable measurement is essential for talking on such a challenge. "Software measurement is an excellent abstraction mechanism for learning what works and what doesn't" (Victor Basili). Measurement of both software process and products provides a large amount of basic information for the evaluation of the software development processes or the software products themselves. Examples of recent successes in software measurement span multiple areas, such as evaluation of new development methods and paradigms, quality and management improvement programs, tool-supporting initiatives and company wide measurement programs. The German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group of Software Metrics and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have attended to these concerns in the recent years. Research initiatives were directed initially to the definition of software metrics and then to validation of the software metrics themselves. This was followed by more and more investigation into practical applications of software metrics and by critical analysis of the benefits and weaknesses of software measurement programs. Key findings in this area of software engineering have been published in some important books, such as Dumke and Zuse's Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, Ebert and Dumke's Software Metrics in Practice and Lehner, Dumke and Abran's Software Metrics."

Designed to conform to the ISO/IEC standard 14143, the Common Software Measurement International Consortium (COSMIC) Function Point method has become the major estimation technique based on international standards for building software-intensive systems. COSMIC Function Points: Theory and Advanced Practices supplies a cutting-edge look at current and emerging practices in the international software measurement community. The editors have assembled an international panel of experts who detail the steps for measuring the functional size of software and developing project estimates with improved accuracy. They explain how to evaluate and compare systems to improve software reuse and development. Touching on the essential aspects of the next generation of functional size measurement methods, the book delineates best estimation and measurement practices as well as the development of benchmarks for quality improvement, including Six Sigma. This complete resource covers software measurement and estimation methods and practices for embedded systems, business applications, communications software, and control systems. Each chapter supplies the practical understanding required to create, implement, standardize, distribute, and adapt functional size measurement and project estimation to virtually any software context. Praise for: ... an excellent overview ... provides a strong knowledge background for both practitioners and researchers. ... With its broad background, it is useful for practically implementing and successfully adapting other functional sizing methods ... . The COSMIC function point techniques presented in this book will help you to implement, master, and improve your estimation process.-Christof Ebert, Managing Director, Vector Consulting Services

Since 1990 the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM)has th been held annually and is now in its 19 edition. The International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (Mensura) was initiated in 2006 and is now in its third edition. The editions of IWSM/Mensura have been c- bined since 2007 to foster research, practice and exchange of experiences and best practices in software processes and products measurement. The 2009 e- tionswereheldduringNovember4-6,2009inAmsterdam, organizedjointlywith 1 The Netherlands Association for Software Measurement (NESMA) and kindly 2 hosted by Hogeschool van Amsterdam . Today the pressure for more e?cient software development processes del- ering appropriate quality is constantly increasing. But who knows how e?cient one's own current development process actually is and whether the quality of delivered products is really appropriate? Did we substantially improve with all the improvement e?ort spent? How can we answer all these questions if not by measuring both software processes and software products? Softwaremeasurement is a key technologywith which to manageand to c- trol software development projects. Measurement is essential of any engineering activity, by increasing the scienti?c and technical knowledge for both the pr- tice of software development and for empirical research in software technology. IWSM/MENSURAfacilitatestheexchangeofsoftwaremeasurementexperiences between theory and practice. Softwareprocessevaluationandimprovementrequirequanti?edmethodsand technologies. Issues such as the applicability of measures and metrics to so- ware, the e?ciency of measurement programs in industry and the theoretical foundations of software engineering have been researched in order to evaluate and improve modern software development approaches.

Since 1990 the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM)has beencelebratedannuallyalternatingbetweenMontr eal(Canada)andvariouscities acrossGermany.TheMontr ealeditionshavebeenorganizedbytheSoftwareEn- 1 gineeringResearchLaboratory(GELOG) oftheEcoledetechnologiesup erieure- UniversiteduQu ebec, whichisdirectedbyProf.AlainAbran.TheGermaneditions 2 havebeenorganizedjointlybytheSoftwareMeasurementLaboratory(SMLAB) ofthe Otto vonGuerickeUniversityMagdeburg(Germany), whichis directedby Prof.Reiner R. Dumke; and the Germanassociationfor software metrics and ef- 3 fortestimation(DASMAe.V.), whichisledbyManfredBundschuhandGun ] ter B] uren.ThebiennialeditionsofIWSMinGermanyhasbeenheldjointlywiththe 4 DASMASoftwareMetricsCongress(MetriKon) since2002.MetriKonisayearly event, conductedeveryotheryearforaGerman-speakingaudienceatchanging- tionallocationsforbest-practicesharingofsoftwaremeasurementtopics, bringing thebestandrenownedGerman-speakingexpertsofthe?eldtogether. The?rsttwoeditionsoftheInternationalConferenceonSoftwareProcessand 5 Product Measurement(Mensura) were organizedby Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego from the University of Alcal a (Spain) and convened in C adiz (Spain) in 2006 together with IWSM in Palma de Mallorca (Spain) in 2007. To foster research, practiceandexchangeofexperiencesandbestpracticesinsoftwareprocessesand product measurement, the 2008 editions of IWSM / MetriKon / Mensura were combined. The conferences were held during November 18-20, 2008 in Munich (Germany) and kindly hosted by Siemens AG. ThisvolumecomprisestheproceedingsofIWSM/MetriKon/Mensura2008 and consistsofthe ?nal paperspresentedat these joint events.Eachone of these papers has been thoroughly revised and extended in order to be accepted for publication. The IWSM / MetriKon / Mensura Steering Committee is proud to have-once more-obtainedthe approvalof Springer to publish the second edition of the joint conference proceedings in the prestigiousLecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. We hope to maintain this collaboration for the future editions of these joint events."

th The purpose of the 8 Conference on Software Engineering Research, Mana- ment and Applications (SERA 2010) held on May 24 - 26, 2010 in Montreal, Canada was to bring together researchers and scientists, businessmen and ent- preneurs, teachers and students to discuss the numerous fields of computer s- ence, and to share ideas and information in a meaningful way. Our conference officers selected the best 16 papers from those papers accepted for presentation at the conference in order to publish them in this volume. The papers were chosen based on review scores submitted by members of the program committee, and underwent further rounds of rigorous review. In Chapter 1, Emil Vassev and Serguei Mokhov discuss their work in creating a Distributed Modular Audio Recognition Framework capable of self-healing using the Autonomic System Specification Language. In Chapter 2, Yuhong Yan et al. present a new model of the Web Service Com- sition Problem and propose a reparative method based on planning graphs. In Chapter 3, Chandan Sarkar et al. explore options for conducting remote usab- ity tests using their newly-developed Total Cost of Administration (TCA) tool to collect and analyze test results. In Chapter 4, Idir Ait-Sadoune and Yamine Ait-Ameur focus on the formal - scription, modeling, and validation of web services compositions and suggest a refinement based method that encodes the Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) model's decompositions.