Function point analysis(FPA) was proposedto help measure the size of a computerizedbusiness information system. It is widely used in the actual software development. However, it h...
One of the most important steps towards effective software maintenance of a large complicated system is to understand how program features are spread over the entire system and th...
W. Eric Wong, Swapna S. Gokhale, Joseph Robert Hor...
Time to market or project duration has increasing significance for commercial software development. We report on a longitudinal study of a project at IBM Hursley Park. The focus o...
Success factors for measurement programs as identified in the literature typically focus on the `internals' of the measurement program: incremental implementation, support fr...
Code duplication, plausibly caused by copying source code and slightly modifying it, is often observed in large systems. Clone detection and documentation have been investigated b...
Magdalena Balazinska, Ettore Merlo, Michel Dagenai...
The design of software is often depicted by graphs that show components and their relationships. For example, a structure chart shows the calling relationships among components. O...