Predicting stability in object-oriented (OO) software, i.e., the ease with which a software item evolves while preserving its design, is a key feature for software maintenance. In fact, a well designed OO software must be able to evolve without ...

The fact that the usage of metrics in the analysis and design of object oriented (OO) software can help designers make better decisions is gaining relevance in software measurement arena. Moreover, the necessity of having early indicators of external ...

We introduce a portfolio management method that uses effort estimates to build sets of feasible deadlines for software projects at the bidding stage. Effort estimates can involve considerable error, and this must be taken into account when selecting ...

Size measures for Web costimation proposed in the literature are invariably related to implemented Web applications. Even when targeted at measuring functionality based on function point analysis, researchers only considered the final Web application, ...

Whilst there is a general consensus that quantitative approaches are an important part of successful software project management, there has been relatively little research into many of the obstacles to data collection and analysis in the real world. One ...

We use a combination of metrics to understand, model, and evaluate the impact of Pair Programming on software development. Pair Programming is a core technique in the hot process paradigm of Extreme Programming. At the expense of increased personnel ...

Software developers and project managers often have to assess the quality of software design. A commonly adopted hypothesis is that a good design should cost less to maintain than a poor design. In this paper, we propose a model for quantifying the ...

Metrics have long been used to measure and evaluate software products and processes. Many metrics have been developed that have lead to different degrees of success. Software architecture is a discipline in which few metrics have been applied, a ...

Traditional methods of generating quality code indicators (e.g. linear regression, decision tree induction) can be demonstrated to be inappropriate for IV&V purposes. IV&V is a unique aspect of the software lifecycle, and different methods are necessary ...

In component-based software development, it is necessary to measure the reusability of components in order to realize the reuse of components effectively. There are some product metrics for measuring the reusability of Object-Oriented software. However, ...

Nowadays, several approaches for developing web applications have been proposed in the literature. Most of them extend existing object-oriented conceptual modeling methods, incorporating new constructors in order to model the navigational structure and ...

Several empirical studies have been carried out with college students as subjects in the last few years. Researchers often use these studies to pilot experiments before they are carried out in industrial environments. Reports on these studies usually ...

Up until recently software 'metrics' have been most often proposed as the quantitative tools of choice in software engineering, and the analysis of these had been most often discussed from the perspective referred to as measurement theory'. However, in ...

Estimating the effort required for software process activities continues to present difficulties for software engineers, particularly given the uncertainty and subjectivity associated with the many factors that can influence effort. It is therefore ...

Measurement programs are key to learning about the effectiveness of software engineering methods. However the potential impact of measurement on the practice of industrial software development has not yet been fully exploited. In this paper, social ...

Software product-line engineering is a method for improving the efficiency and effectiveness of software development. Introducing such a method into an industrial software development environment is potentially of great benefit, but one cannot afford to ...

Traditional software metrics, such as code coverage, McCabe complexity, etc. address the needs of a software engineer. In contrast, managers of software development organizations face a broader set of issues. For example, an executive responsible for ...