SE 468 Software Measurement/Project Estimation
Useful Information
Table of Contents
- Text Book
- On-line articles, documents and references of Interest for Instructor and Students
- Web Pages of Interest
Text Book
Required:
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Stephen Kan, Metrics and Models in Software Quality Engineering, 2nd Edition, Addison-Wesley, 2003 ISBN: 0-201-72915-6 |
Recommended:
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Watts S. Humphrey, A Discipline for Software Engineering,
Addison-Wesley,
1995
ISBN
201-54610-8 SEI's website www.sei.cmu.edu |
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John McGarry, David Card,
Cheryl Jones, Beth Layman, Elizabeth Clark, Joseph Dean, Fred
Hall, Practical Software Measurement:
Objective
Information
for
Decision
Makers, Addison-Wesley 2002,
ISBN: 0-201-71516-3 Website: www.psmsc.com |
The following text books contain useful information and are worth looking at:
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Roger Pressman, Software Engineering: A Practitioner's
Approach, 6th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2005. ISBN:
007301933X Register for premium on-line resources: http://www.mhhe.com/pressman: study guides, self tests, supplementary content, professional resources. |
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Ian Sommerville, Software Engineering,
8th Edition,
Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-31379-8. This is one of the top two undergraduate software engineering texts. |
Other books (worth reading)
These two books are ones that every practitioner in the field ought to read. They are the defining books in the field and often cited by others.- Frederick P. Brooks, The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition) (Paperback), Addison-Wesley, ISBN-10: 0-201-83595-9.
- Gerald M. Weinberg, The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition (Paperback), Dorset House, ISBN-10: 0-932633-42-0
Related Readings
Personal Software Process (PSP)
Practical Software Measurement (PSM)
- Practical
Software and Systems Measurement: A Foundation for Objective Project
Management, v. 4.0b1 (PDF) [Registration required.] (Mirror)
Collection of References
- Software Project Management Resources -- Columbia University [Project management resources: templates, samples, articles, software, lecture notes on software & general PM.] Rather comprehensive collection of information and links.
Access to electronic books and journal articles
The DePaul Library has on-line access to many books and journals. These are available online at the DePaul Libraries Web site, http://library.depaul.edu. [Electronic Books: Books 24x7: BusinessPro and Books 24x7: ITPro; also Safari Books.] Journals are available forGeneral Articles
-
Humor
- Project Management and Herding Cats (Humor)
- Cowboys herding cats (humor)
- Project Management Proverbs
- Project Management Truths
- Project Management Laws
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Articles and Reports:
- The Software Quality Profile, Watts S. Humphrey, CMU/SEI
- Programming Laws and Reality: Do We Know What We Think We Know? How well do programming maxims stand up when compared with hard data?
- Software
Measurement
for
DOD
Systems:
Recommendations
for
Initial
Core
Measures,
Technical Report
CMU/SEI-92-TR-019, September 1992 - Software Size Measurement: A Framework for Counting Source Statements, Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-020, September 1992
- Software
Effort
&
Schedule
Measurement:
A
Framework
for
Counting
Staff-hours
and Reporting Schedule Information, Technical Report
CMU/SEI-92-TR-021, September 1992
- Software
Quality
Measurement:
A
Framework
for
Counting
Problems
and
Defects,
Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-022, September 1992
- Goal-Driven Software Measurement--A Guidebook, Handbook CMU/SEI-96-HB-002, August 1996
- Practical Software Measurement: Measuring for Process Management and Improvement, Handbook CMU/SEI-97-HB-003, April 1997
- Software Cost and Schedule Estimating: A Process Improvement Initiative, Special Report CMU/SEI-94-SR-003, May 1994
- Status Report: Practical Software Measurement, David Card & Cheryl Jones, November 2003
- Software Metrics and Reliability, November 1998
- Murphy's
law, the fitness of evolving species, and the limits of software
reliability, Brady, Anderson and Ball,
Software for Downloads
- Estimation tool, Estimate
2.0: http://www.construx.com/estimate (mirror)
- SEAT
estimation tool
- COSMOS for Windows estimation tool
- Software Metric programs
- OO Metric programs
Readings for the lectures
Material is organized in the approximate order it is covered in the course.- General
- Lecture 1: Introduction and Overview: Class Administrivia: Roll, Syllabus. Course Overview: Software Measurement; Project Estimation; Software Quality; Software Measurement: basic thoughts and measurement theory; GQM paradigm
- Goal Question Metric Paradigm, V. Basili, G. Caldiera, and H.D. Rombach, Encyclopedia of Software Engineering, pp. 528-532, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994. [Also as http://www.cs.umd.edu/~basili/publications/technical/T87.pdf]
- The
Goal
Question
Metric
Approach,
Victor R. Basili, Gianluigi
Caldiera, H. Dieter Rombach [This is the same paper as the one above
except in larger type and single column.]
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters 1-2
- Lecture 2: Measurement: Measurement Key Concepts; Measurement Information Model; The Business Decision-Making Process;
- FP-05 Software Measurement
- Software Measurement: Key Concepts and Practices, John McGarry, Nov 9, 2001
- Measurement Information Model, John McGarry, Nov 9, 2001
- Defining
and
Understanding
Software
Measurement
Data, James A. Rozum, CMU/SEI
- Readings:
- Kan: chapter 3
- Lecture 3: Size: Measuring Software Size; Estimating Software Size; Plan Measurement; Size & Effort Estimation; COCOMO
- Source lines of code
- Software Size Measurement: A Framework for Counting Source Statements, Technical Report CMU/SEI-92-TR-020, September 1992
- Software Estimation, Measurement, and Metrics, Chapter 13, GSAM V. 3.0, USAF Software Technology Support Center.
- Metrics
Tools:
Effort
and
Schedule, David R. Erickson and A. Todd Steadman,
USAF STSC
- Techiques
- Function
Point
Analysis
- COCOMO
- Overview of COCOMO
- Software Cost Estimation and COCOMO II
- COCOMO
Software Cost Model - This is a simple on-line model for estimating
the number of person-months required to develop software.
- COCOMO II [See COCOMO Suite Tool], USC, Center for Systems and Software Engineering
- Survey of Cost Estimation Tools
- Software
Cost
Estimation
in
2002
- Readings:
- Kan, pp. 56,
88-91, 93-96, 456
- Lecture 4: Project Estimation: Project Schedule Estimation; Resource & Schedule Estimation; Overly Optimistic Schedules; The Time Value of Money;
- Software Cost and Schedule Estimating: A Process Improvement Initiative, Special Report CMU/SEI-94-SR-003, May 1994
- Cost Estimation
- Programmer Productivity: The "Tenfinity Factor”
- Fundamentals of Software Project Estimation, White Paper from Software Productivity Center
- Applied Software Project Management, Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene, November 2005, ISBN 10: 0-596-00948-8, Estimation (Chapter 3, Applied Software Project Management) [PDF]
- Readings:
- Kan, chapter
12.2. pp. 343-347, 362
- Lecture 5: Quality: Metrics; Software Quality (Redux); Software Quality Metrics; Basic Quality Tools;
- Deming’s
Principles
of
Quality
Re-stated
for
the
Quality
Assurance
Professional
- Deming, W. Edwards, Out
of
the
Crisis, MIT Center for Advanced Engineering Study, 1992.
- Weinberg, Gerald M., The Psychology of Computer Programming: Silver Anniversary Edition, ISBN 0-932633-42-0
- Weinberg, Gerald M., Quality Software Management Series
1. Systems Thinking
2. First-Order Measurement
3. Congruent Action
4. Anticipating Change - Software
Quality
Metrics:
Overview
- The
seven
basic
tools
of
quality
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters 1, 4-5
- Lecture 6: Quality: Defect Removal Effectiveness; Process and Project Metrics; Analysis and models: Analysis Techniques; Normal curve and six sigma; Reliability Models; The Rayleigh Model; Reliability Growth Models;
- The Bell-shaped, Normal, Gaussian Distribution
- Software Reliability
- Measuring Defect Potentials and Defect Removal Efficiency, Capers Jones
- Implementing
Phase
Containment
Effectiveness
Metrics
at
Motorola
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters
6-9,
pp.
66-70
- Lecture 7: Software Metrics: In-process Metrics for Testing; The Fagan Inspection Process; Complexity Metrics and Models;
- Software Quality Metrics: In-Process
Quality Metrics for Software Testing
- Structured Testing: A Testing Methodology Using the Cyclomatic Complexity Metric, especially Chapter 2: Cyclomatic Complexity, Arthur H. Watson and Thomas J. McCabe, August 1996, NIST Special Publication 500-235
- Software Metrics SEI Curriculum Module SEI-CM-12-1.1
- Cyclomatic Complexity
- Cyclomatic complexity
- Measuring
software
complexity
- Software Metric programs
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters 10-11, pp. 312, 316-320, 180
- Lecture 8: Object Oriented Metrics: Metrics and Lessons Learned for O-O Projects; Availability Metrics; Exploiting Measures
- Software Quality Metrics: Pattern Metrics
in OOAD
- Applying and Interpreting Object Oriented Metrics
- Software Quality Metrics for Object Oriented System Environments
- Software Reliability
- OO Metric programs
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters 12-13, pp. 334
- Lecture 9: Customer Satisfaction: Surveys
- Rating scale
- Rating
the
rating
scales, Hershey H. Friedman, Ph.D., Taiwo Amoo, Ph.D.,
The Biasing of Surveys
- How to Measure Customer Satisfaction
- Software Customer Satisfaction
- Quality Services - Guide II - Measuring Client Satisfaction
- Software
Quality
Metrics:
Availability
and
Customer
Satisfaction
Metrics
- Discovering relationships between service and customer satisfaction [Accessible through DePaul Library]
- Deriving
a
Software
Quality
View
from
Customer
Satisfaction
and
Service Data
- Readings:
- Kan: chapter 14
- Lecture 10: Software Process Improvement: Conducting In-Process Quality Assessments; Conducting Software Project Assessments; CMM and CMMI; Software Process Improvement: Dos and Don’ts of Software Process Improvement; Measuring Software Process Improvements; Concluding Thoughts
- Introduction to Software Process Improvement
- Process Improvement
- SEI
Capability Maturity Model (Short
tutorial)
- Capability Maturity Model® Integration (CMMI®) Version 1.2 Overview (Overview by SEI)
- Capability
Maturity
Model (Wikipedia)
- Capability
Maturity
Model
Integration
(Wikipedia)
- Software
Process
Improvement
Implementation:
Avoiding
Critical
Barriers
- The
Software
Process
Improvement
(SPI)
Discipline:
Scaling
Agile
Software
Development
- Software Process Improvement (SPI) Best Practices
- A Boss’s Guide to Software Process Improvement
- Software Process Improvement: Ten Traps to Avoid
- Best Practice
- Management support of quality (short
note)
- Readings:
- Kan: chapters 15-19, 2.8