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Everything you need to Successfully Implement Measurement
Software Engineering
Organisations with software engineering, metrics and research focus | Software Measurement Related. |
| The ITMPI is an organization founded by Computer Aid, Inc. (CAI) to improve the practice and management of software development and maintenance. The ITMPI seeks to accomplish its mission through the promotion of best practices in the areas of Software Process, Software Metrics, Software Estimation, and IT Governance. The ITMPI also provides a free weekly eZine - IT Metrics and Productivity Journal on best practices in Software Development, Maintenance, and Management. This highly focused e-newsletter aims to educate serious minded software and IT professionals on these four main theme areas. This e-newsletter also includes "Special Edition" interviews several times each month. These interviews are conducted with renowned software authors, CIOs from major corporations, and thought leaders from top software research organizations. They will share with you practical insights and lessons learned on a variety of issues related to each of our four main theme areas. |
| ISERN is a community that believes software engineering research needs to be performed in an experimental context. By doing this we will be able to observe and experiment with the technologies in use, understand their weaknesses and strengths,tailor the technologies for the goals and characteristics of particular projects and package them together with empirically gained experience to enhance their reuse potential in future projects. The founding ISERN members chose the Quality Improvement Paradigm as the reference model to provide a common terminology for their cooperation. |
| SPMN Mission: To seek out proven industry and government software best practices and convey them to managers of large-scale DoD software-intensive acquisition programs. Applying extensive "in the trenches" experience, the SPMN enables program managers to achieve project success and deliver quality systems on schedule and on budget. |
| New Grange Centre for Project Management Mission is to further the discussion of project management as a professional discipline |
| IFIP A non-governmental, non-profit umbrella organisation for national societies working in the field of information processing. |
| The Army Software Metrics Office (ASMO) is sponsored by the US Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) (formerly the Operational Test and Evaluation Command (OPTEC)) and the Director of Information Systems for Command, Control, Communications, and Computers (DISC4). The ASMO provides support to Army and DoD managers to develop software measurement programs. |
| The Industrial Advisory Board of the Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge (SWEBOK) project recognizes that due process was followed in the development of the Guide (Trial Version) and endorses the position that the Guide (Trial Version) is ready for field trials for a period of two years. |
| SEI Information Technology is an IT consulting organization with a well-earned reputation for addressing its clients' complex challenges with business acumen and innovative technical solutions. Headquartered in Chicago, SEI has offices nationwide and employs nearly 400 highly skilled business and technology consultants, business analysts, and seasoned project managers. SEI specializes in large-scale, full-lifecycle project efforts conducted in strategic partnership with some of the world's most prominent companies. |
| PMI is the leading nonprofit professional association in the area of Project Management. PMI establishes Project Management standards, provides seminars, educational programs and professional certification that more andmore organizations desire for their project leaders. |
| PSM was developed to meet today's software and system technical and management challenges. It describes an issue-driven measurement process that will address the unique technical and business goals of your organization. The guidance in PSM represents the best practices used by measurement professionals within the software and system acquisition and engineering communities. |
| The Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) is an organization sponsored by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration/Goddard Space Flight Center (NASA/GSFC) and created to investigate the effectiveness of software engineering technologies when applied to the development of applications software. |
| CSR at City University is an independent Research Centre, founded in 1983. CSR has an international reputation for its research achievements in the areas of:
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| Established at the Naval Postgraduate School to assist US' Department of Defence (DOD) to improve the quality of software products and increasing the productivity of its software developers and maintainers. |
| SQI The main purpose of the Institute is to provide a focus in Queensland for expertise in software quality and to serve as a catalyst for innovations in software quality techniques. It is engaged in a program of action research with the local software industry and in basic research focused on rigorous computer-assisted program development. The Institute provides consulting and professional support to industry on setting up and managing software quality systems and on using national and international software standards. |
| COCOMO II is a model that allows one to estimate the cost, effort, and schedule when planning a new software development activity. It consists of three submodels, each one offering increased fidelity the further along one is in the project planning and design process. Listed in increasing fidelity, these submodels are called the Applications Composition, Early Design, and Post-architecture models. Until recently, only the last and most detailed submodel, Post-architecture, had been implemented in a calibrated software tool. As such, unless otherwise explicitly indicated, all further references on these web pages to "COCOMO II" or "USC COCOMO II" can be assumed to be in regard to the Post-architecture model. |
| CORADMO The Constructive Rapid Application Development model has its roots in the results of a 1997 CSE Focused Workshop on Rapid Application Development. RAD refers to an application of any of a number of techniques or strategies to reduce software development cycle time. The six classes of strategies whose degree of implementation can be used to parameterize a schedule estimate given an effort estimate produced by COCOMO II.2000 are the following: Development Process Re-engineering (DPRS), Re-use and Very High Level Languages (RVHL), Collaboration efficiency (CLAB), Architecture and risk resolution (RESL), Pre-Positioning of assets (PPOS), RAD Capability of Personnel (RCAP). RESL corresponds to the COCOMO II scale driver; the other five are new. All have their effects reflected as multipliers on effort, schedule, number of personnel. In some cases, the person-months of effort can actually be increased because certain pro-active strategies, like pre-positioning of assets, are only possible with extra effort. |
| The Software Cost Modeling System (COSMOS) eases the task of estimation for software development projects. COSMOS allows you to estimate project size and effort by using the Function Point, COCOMO (COnstructive COst MOdel), and Rayleigh models. |
| COCOTS TOne of the more significant changes in software development practice over the past twenty years is the greatly increased emphasis being placed on building systems incorporating pre-existing software in order to keep overall development and maintenance costs as low as possible. This trend has become so pronounced that some large software system acquirers have even gone so far as to establish policy which demands that their software procurers justify why they are not using such components. |
| COQUALMO (COnstructive QUALity MOdel)--formerly called CODEFMO--is an estimation model that can be used for predicting number of residual defects/KSLOC (Thousands of Source Lines of Code) or defects/FP (Function Point) in a software product. It can be applied in the early activities such as analysis and design, as well as in the later stages for refining the estimate when more information is available. It enables 'what-if' analyses that demonstrate the impact of various defect removal techniques and the effects of personnel, project, product and platform characteristics on software quality. It also provides insights into determining ship time, assessment of payoffs for quality investments and understanding of interactions amongst quality strategies. |
| The USC Center for Software Engineering was founded in June of 1993 by Dr. Barry W. Boehm for the purpose of providing an environment for research and teaching in the areas of large-scale software design and development processes, generic and domain specific software architectures, software engineering tools and environments, cooperative system design, and the economics of software engineering. Crucial to the success of the Center's efforts are the partnerships created with leading public and private sector organizations through their participation in our CSE General Affiliates' and COCOMO II Affiliates' programs. These organizations help fund the Center's research and in turn benefit from its services and assets. |
| ESCOM has over 12 years of bringing innovations to industry in the application of metrics to software projects ... ... you heard it first at Escom! Escom is a bridge between practitioners, consultants and academia. Escom is an independent series of conference organised by its regular attendees on a not-for-profit basis. |
| The Software Engineering Research Laboratory (SERL) in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder is pursuing the discovery of principles and the development of technologies to support the engineering of large, complex software systems. The challenging targets for this work are organizations and software systems operating in the wide-area, heterogeneous, distributed, and decentralized context of wide-area networks such as the Internet. |
| SEIR provides a forum for the contribution and exchange of information concerning software engineering improvement activities. Registered members of the SEIR can exchange questions or tips and contribute (deposit)experiences or examples to assist each other with their implementation efforts. In the process of contributing this information, SEIR members are building a knowledge base in this repository for their future use. The SEIR site compliments the Software Engineering Institute's (SEI) Web site. While the SEI Web site is a good source of information on practices and methods leading to improvement, the SEIR provides data and information on the experiences, benefits and use of these practices and methods in the field. |
| SR/Institute's maintains this list of links to selected organizations and institutions which support the software quality and software testing area. Organizations and other references are classified by type, by geographic area, and then in alphabetic order within each geographic area. Our aim in building and maintaining the Software Quality HotList TM is to bring to one location a complete list of technical, organizational, and related resources. The goal is to have the Software Quality HotList TM be the first stop in technical development related to software testing and software quality issues. |
| IT Governance Ltd Understanding Corporate Governance concepts is increasingly important in the post-Enron (and Hollinger and Parmalat) age and IT governance is a critical component of corporate governance. This web site is designed for, and is primarily directed at, directors and managers, not computer experts, and is a core resource to help those responsible for corporate governance to understand, direct and manage the IT governance and information security efforts within their organisations. |
| Total Metrics is now able to provide you with an Example Software Specification & Function Point Count for you to practice your function point counting skills. This specification has been counted by certified counters and was approved by IFPUG as part of Total Metrics certification for function point count training. You will also receive an evaluation copy of SCOPE Project Sizing Software™, in order to view the answers. Click here for Case Study |
| Free e-newsletter providing practical knowledge for software development professionals. |
| Results of a research project carried out by the Software Engineering Management Research Laboratory and its industrial partner, the Software Engineering Laboratory in Applied Metrics (SELAM), to adapt Function Points to REAL-TIME Software. |
| The distinguishing features of SDMetrics are that the UML is the de-facto standard design modeling language for object-oriented systems. SDMetrics performs design measurement on UML designs, thus providing early cost and quality indicators at the design stages. SDMetrics is highly customizable. Users can define and calculate their own design measures, tailored to their design processes and usage of the UML. SDMetrics works with all UML design tools that support the UML interchange format XMI (that is most UML tools), and is free for universities and non-profit organizations. |
| SLIM-Metrics for Windows is the Windows based version of the popular PADS (Productivity Analysis Database System) measurement and metrics repository. The data entry part of SLIM-Metrics is comprehensive and customizable. If it's not there, you can add it. |
| By Robert J. Graham and Randall L. Englund In Creating an environment for Successful Projects Robert J Graham and Randall L Englund zero in on the key to developing the project-based organization. To email Custservice@johnwiley.com.au |
| This document contains information regarding function point analysis. It is a compendium of questions that are often raised on-line or in a business environment, including the classroom. Variations on these questions often occur on the CompuServe CASE forum and the USENET comp.software-eng newsgroup. However, because there is no function point newsgroup, this FAQ is not the official FAQ to any newsgroup. |
| SR/Institute maintains this list of links to selected organizations and institutions which support the software quality and software testing area. Organizations and other references are classified by type, by geographic area, and then in alphabetic order within each geographic area. |
| The Software Metrics Sites are a guide to Internet resources on software measurement, process improvement and related areas. Topics featured include electronic papers, bibliographies and conferences on software measurement, object-oriented metrics, Function Point Analysis and software process improvement. The Software Metrics Sites list research institutes and people who are active in the area of software measurement. Several mailing lists that are used for discussions and the exchange of ideas can be found as well. You can locate software measurement tools that are available for download. The site also lists some sites that offer commercial products, and consulting and training services. |
| SEISN is funded by the EPSRC under the SEBPC Initiative. The backdrop of the network concerns the present poor communications between the software engineering and information systems communities. SEBPC concerns software engineering and business processes which falls under the remit of both groups. One of its aims is to encourage joint work. We feel that such collaboration would be to the benefit of both groups. The network is about leading members of the SE and IS communities in both computer science and management forming a network to discover the links between the disciplines in academia and outside, debating conflicts and misunderstandings, proposing best practice and disseminating this to academia and industry. The emphasis is on empirical research. |
| The International Function Point Users’ Group (IFPUG) is a non-profit, member governed organization. The mission of IFPUG is to be a recognized leader in promoting and encouraging the effective management of application software development and maintenance activities through the use of Function Point Analysis and other software measurement techniques. IFPUG endorses FPA as its standard methodology for software sizing. In support of this, IFPUG maintains the Function Point Counting Practices Manual, the recognized industry standard for FPA. IFPUG also provides a forum for networking and information exchange that promotes and encourages the use of software product and process metrics. IFPUG members benefit from a variety of services, each of which is described below. |
| Metrics and Organizational Learning examines how forward-looking companies can use organizational learning to overcome metrics fears, organize a metrics function, and leverage collective thought processes to learn faster than their competitors and compete more effectively. |
| JMetric aims to bring current OO-metrics, and metrics tools research to the practitioner. The project was started in April 1998 as part of ongoing research into metrics tools. The development team had found that there had been very few good metrics collection and analysis tools available for object oriented languages. This was the start of the development of a fully functional metrics tool for an object oriented programming language. |
| The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to Function Point Analysis and its application in non-traditional computing situations. Software engineers have been searching for a metric that is applicable for a broad range of software environments. The metric should be technology independent and support the need for estimating, project management, measuring quality and gathering requirements. Function Point Analysis is rapidly becoming the measure of choice for these tasks. |
| Web Articles: Function Point Counting in a Real-Time Environment by D. Garmus An Introduction to Function Point Counting by D. Garmus Estimating Software Earlier and More Accurately by D. Garmus, D. Herron Establishing Effective Service Level Measures by D. Herron Vendor Selection: A recipe for success by K. Thompson Performance Measurement: The foundation of effective Service Level measures by E. Buel Application Maintenance Outsourcing by D. Herron On Time In Budget, How Did You Do It? by D. Garmus, D. Herron A Prescriptive Template for Outsourcing by K. Thompson The Missing Manager Syndrome by K. Thompson |
| COSMIC - FFP ISO/IEC 19761 Version 2003 is now an ISO Standard. Version 2.1 was developed by an international group of experts in functional size measurement methods. Both versions are available free of charge: COSMIC (Common Software Measurement International Consortium) http://www.cosmicon.com/ |
| Guidelines developed by the Netherlands Software Measurement Association (NESMA) for measuring Enhancement projects. Dowload the methodology. Guide "Function Point Analysis for Software Enhancement" (© NESMA, 1998; English translation © NESMA, 2001), applicable using IFPUG CPM 4.1 FPA guidelines. |
| A collection of Web-based and print resources that will help you understand and explore many different software engineering topics. |
| This site contains informative links, tools and information about software metrics. |
| Software Productivity Research (SPR), a wholly owned, independently operated subsidiary of Artemis International Solutions Corporation, was founded in 1984 by Capers Jones, an internationally recognized consultant, speaker, and seminar leader in the field of software management. SPR is a worldwide provider of consulting services that enable organizations to compete more effectively through the predictable, on-time delivery of high-quality software by focusing on software estimation, measurement, and assessment. Our services help companies manage the software development process for maximum productivity, performance, and quality. |
| The basic task of software metrics is to identify and measure the key parameters which affect software development. DAC offers a solution which combines the usefulness of using software metrics and the facility of working in an integrated environment. Metrics reports provide from their own angle a qualitatively new outlook on the complexity and quality of the project. Software metrics in DAC are easy to use, allow a visual overview of metrics parameters and are integrated into the project. |
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