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Product Focused Software Process Improvement: 6th International Conference, PROFES 2005, Oulu, Finland, June 13-18, 2005, Proceedings

Frank Bomarius ; Seija Komi-Sirviö (eds.)

En conferencia: 6º International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement (PROFES) . Oulu, Finland . June 13, 2005 - June 18, 2005

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Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Software Engineering; Computer Appl. in Administrative Data Processing; Computers and Society; Management of Computing and Information Systems; Innovation/Technology Management

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ISBN impreso

978-3-540-26200-8

ISBN electrónico

978-3-540-31640-4

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Springer Nature

País de edición

Reino Unido

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© Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2005

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Measuring Similarity of Large Software Systems Based on Source Code Correspondence

Tetsuo Yamamoto; Makoto Matsushita; Toshihiro Kamiya; Katsuro Inoue

It is an important and intriguing issue to know the quantitative similarity of large software systems. In this paper, a similarity metric between two sets of source code files based on the correspondence of overall source code lines is proposed. A Software similarity MeAsurement Tool SMAT was developed and applied to various versions of an operating system(BSD UNIX). The resulting similarity valuations clearly revealed the evolutionary history characteristics of the BSD UNIX Operating System.

- Measurement | Pp. 530-544

Tool Support for Personal Software Process

Jouni Lappalainen

Improving the software development process is something that many organizations aim for. Many methods have been devised to reach this goal, one of which focuses on the personal level of software development, namely the Personal Software Process (PSP). There is a dire need for automated tool support for PSP, since the method is laborious if used manually. During four university-level courses several tools were studied and later evaluated using feature analysis. As one result, a requirements set for an ideal PSP tool was de vised. The results of the evaluation showed that none of the evaluated tools ful filled the acceptance threshold set for a tool, though one of them can be modified so that it could be used within the setting of an academic PSP course.

- Measurement | Pp. 545-559

An Experience Factory to Improve Software Development Effort Estimates

Ricardo Kosloski; Káthia Marçal de Oliveira

It is well known that effort estimate is an important issue for software project management. Software development effort can be obtained from the size of the software and the productivity of its development process. Nowadays the Function Point Analysis stands out as an approach largely used for software size estimate, while productivity values are extracted from international historical databases. Some databases show the median value of various productivity projects while others present all data according to some specific characterization of the projects. We argue that defining a framework of characteristics that impact on software project productivity can improve comparison between finished projects and the new ones that need an effort estimate. This article presents an approach to effort estimate with continuous improvement of the estimates using some characterization of the projects. Continuous improvement is based on the use of an experience factory.

- Measurement | Pp. 560-573

An Instrument for Measuring the Maturity of Requirements Engineering Process

Mahmood Niazi

Requirements problems are widely acknowledged to have impact on the effectiveness of the software development process. In order to improve the requirements engineering (RE) process and to reduce requirements problems, Sommerville et al. [1] have developed a requirements maturity model. Literature shows that the measurement process, designed in this model, is very confused and can lead organizations to incorrect results. This is because the measurement process is ambiguous and no strategic and systematic approach is used to decide different scores for various RE practices.

The objective of this paper is to propose a measurement instrument for Sommerville et al.’s model to effectively measure the maturity of the RE process. The main purpose of proposing this measurement instrument is to develop better ways to assist practitioners in effectively measuring the maturity of the RE process. This instrument provides a very practical structure with which to measure the maturity of the RE process. I have tested this instrument in one case study where only one category of RE process, i.e. ‘requirements elicitation’ was used as an exemplar. The case study results show that the measurement instrument has potential to assist practitioners in effectively measuring the maturity of ‘requirements elicitation’ category of the RE process. Thus, I recommend organizations trial this instrument for other categories of RE process in order to further evaluate its effectiveness in the domain of RE process.

- Measurement | Pp. 574-585