Software Measurement Establish — Extract — Evaluate — Execute /

• Main Authors: Ebert, Christof (Author), Dumke, Reiner (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2007.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Management.; Industrial management.; Software engineering.; Management information systems.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; Management of Computing and Information Systems.; Innovation/Technology Management.

Our world and our society are shaped and increasingly governed by software. Since software is so ubiquitous and embedded in nearly everything we are doing, we need to stay in control. We have to make sure that the systems and their software are running as we intend - or better. Software measurement...

Table of Contents:

• Making Measurement a Success — A Primer
• Measurement Foundations
• Planning the Measurement Process
• Performing the Measurement Process
• Introducing a Measurement Program
• Estimation of Size, Effort and Cost
• Project Management
• Quality Control and Assurance
• Measuring Software Systems
• Improving Processes and Products
• Controlling for IT and Software
• Measurement Repositories
• Empirical Laws and Rules of Thumb
• Getting yet more Information.