Software Measurement: Establish - Extract - Evaluate - Execute

Author:   Christof Ebert ,  Reiner Dumke
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
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Pages:   561
Publication Date:   15 October 2010
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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 is the discipline that assures that we stay in control. In this volume, Ebert and Dumke provide a comprehensive introduction to software measurement. They detail knowledge and experiences about software measurement in an easily understood, hands-on presentation. Brief references are embedded from world-renown experts such as Alain Abran, Luigi Buglione, Manfred Bundschuh, David N. Card, Ton Dekkers, Robert L. Glass, David A. Gustafson, Marek Leszak, Peter Liggesmeyer, Andreas Schmietendorf, Harry Sneed, Charles Symons, Ruediger Zarnekow and Horst Zuse. Many examples and case studies are provided from Global 100 companies such as Alcatel-Lucent, Atos Origin, Axa, Bosch, Deloitte, Deutsche Telekom, Shell, Siemens and Vector Consulting. This combination of methodologies and applications makes the book ideally suited for both professionals in the software industry and for scientists looking for benchmarks and experiences. Besides the many practical hints and checklists readers will also appreciate the large reference list, which includes links to metrics communities where project experiences are shared. Further information, continuously updated, can also be found on the Web site related to this book: http://metrics.cs.uni-magdeburg.de/.

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Author:   Christof Ebert ,  Reiner Dumke
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2007
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.872kg
ISBN:  

9783642090806


ISBN 10:   364209080
Pages:   561
Publication Date:   15 October 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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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.

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People who design and develop software like to call themselves software 'engineers'. Yet few organizations have really institutionalized measurement of their products and processes, surely the most basic requirement of any engineering discipline. A partial excuse is that the field of software metrics struggles to keep up with the fast-evolving field of software development. This book is bang up-to-date in both fields and packed with practical advice. For every software 'engineer'. - Charles R. Symons, SMS Ltd., London, UK Looking on the book contents, size, additional expert authors, etc. I think it will become 'the' excellent source for software metrics in the next years; my congrat's! - Marek Leszak, Alcatel-Lucent, Nuremberg, Germany Congratulations for this great work - you did major improvements to the book which we used in our teaching in software measurement at our university. - Alain Abran, Ecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, Canada Your book on software measurement is one of the clearest, most concise, and most well written books on this subject. It is an invaluable contribution to the industry and it has been of great help to us in formulating IT Strategy. - Michael Milutis, Director CAI, Allentown, PA, USA A great quality of the book is its focus on practical matters. ... an excellent resource for practitioners... from the ACM Reviews by Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro


People who design and develop software like to call themselves software 'engineers'. Yet few organizations have really institutionalized measurement of their products and processes, surely the most basic requirement of any engineering discipline. A partial excuse is that the field of software metrics struggles to keep up with the fast-evolving field of software development. This book is bang up-to-date in both fields and packed with practical advice. For every software 'engineer'. - Charles R. Symons, SMS Ltd., London, UK Looking on the book contents, size, additional expert authors, etc. I think it will become 'the' excellent source for software metrics in the next years; my congrat's! - Marek Leszak, Alcatel-Lucent, Nuremberg, Germany Congratulations for this great work - you did major improvements to the book which we used in our teaching in software measurement at our university. - Alain Abran, Aecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, Canada Your book on software measurement is one of the clearest, most concise, and most well written books on this subject. It is an invaluable contribution to the industry and it has been of great help to us in formulating IT Strategy. - Michael Milutis, Director CAI, Allentown, PA, USA A great quality of the book is its focus on practical matters. ... an excellent resource for practitioners... from the ACM Reviews by Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro


"""People who design and develop software like to call themselves software 'engineers'. Yet few organizations have really institutionalized measurement of their products and processes, surely the most basic requirement of any engineering discipline. A partial excuse is that the field of software metrics struggles to keep up with the fast-evolving field of software development. This book is bang up-to-date in both fields and packed with practical advice. For every software 'engineer'."" - Charles R. Symons, SMS Ltd., London, UK ""Looking on the book contents, size, additional expert authors, etc. I think it will become 'the' excellent source for software metrics in the next years; my congrat's!"" - Marek Leszak, Alcatel-Lucent, Nuremberg, Germany ""Congratulations for this great work - you did major improvements to the book which we used in our teaching in software measurement at our university."" - Alain Abran, École de technologie supérieure, Montréal, Canada ""Your book on software measurement is one of the clearest, most concise, and most well written books on this subject. It is an invaluable contribution to the industry and it has been of great help to us in formulating IT Strategy."" - Michael Milutis, Director CAI, Allentown, PA, USA ""A great quality of the book is its focus on practical matters."" ""... an excellent resource for practitioners..."" from the ACM Reviews by Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro"


People who design and develop software like to call themselves software 'engineers'. Yet few organizations have really institutionalized measurement of their products and processes, surely the most basic requirement of any engineering discipline. A partial excuse is that the field of software metrics struggles to keep up with the fast-evolving field of software development. This book is bang up-to-date in both fields and packed with practical advice. For every software 'engineer'. - Charles R. Symons, SMS Ltd., London, UK Looking on the book contents, size, additional expert authors, etc. I think it will become 'the' excellent source for software metrics in the next years; my congrat's! - Marek Leszak, Alcatel-Lucent, Nuremberg, Germany Congratulations for this great work - you did major improvements to the book which we used in our teaching in software measurement at our university. - Alain Abran, Aecole de technologie superieure, Montreal, Canada Your book on software measurement is one of the clearest, most concise, and most well written books on this subject. It is an invaluable contribution to the industry and it has been of great help to us in formulating IT Strategy. - Michael Milutis, Director CAI, Allentown, PA, USA A great quality of the book is its focus on practical matters. ... an excellent resource for practitioners... from the ACM Reviews by Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia and Montenegro


Author Information

Christof Ebert is managing director and partner at Vector Consulting Services, has authored several books in software engineering and serves on editorial boards of several scientific journals and as a frequent keynote speaker at conferences. Reiner Dumke is professor of software engineering at the university of Magdeburg, Germany, and speaker of the German informatics society (GI) expert group on metrics.

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