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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.
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Software Process and Product Measurement - International Conference, IWSM-MENSURA 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 5-8, 2007, Revised Papers (Paperback)
Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego, Rene Braungarten, Reiner R. Dumke, Alain Abran
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R1,580
Discovery Miles 15 800
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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.
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Software Process and Product Measurement - International Conferences IWSM 2008, Metrikon 2008, and Mensura 2008 Munich, Germany, November 18-19, 2008. Proceedings (Paperback, 2008 ed.)
Reiner R. Dumke, Rene Braungarten, Gunter Buren, Alain Abran, Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego
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R1,607
Discovery Miles 16 070
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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.
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