Sebastian Kiebusch
ABSTRACT
Due to the fact that the complexity and development effort of software systems is constantly increasing, software components have to be reused. Software system families are a promising solution to gain a cost reduction by reusing common software assets in different variants of similar products. To support the economic management of this development approach we need software metrics to estimate the effort of building software system families. In general techniques of size measurement and cost estimation for software system families are highly insufficient. Furthermore measurement and estimation approaches do not support a process orientation which characterizes the software of many domains. Therefore this paper describes the Process-Family- Points approach to measure the size and estimate the effort of process focused software system families in multiple domains. Every single step of this new metrics approach will be illustrated from a high level perspective to communicate a conceptional view of this innovative sizing and estimating method.
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Digital Library
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- Kiebusch, S. Franczyk, B. Functional size measurement of processes in Software- Product- Families. In: Proceedings of the 2nd Software Measurement European Forum, Rome, March 2005, pp. 161--172Google Scholar
- Kiebusch, S. Franczyk, B., Speck, A. A Real Time Measure of Software System Families. To be published in: Proceedings of the third ICSE Workshop on Software Quality, St. Louis, May 2005. Google ScholarDigital Library
- Kiebusch, S. Franczyk, B., Speck. A. Size Measurement of Embedded Software System Families. To be published in: Proceedings of the ICSE Co-located Conference of Software Process Simulation and Modeling, St. Louis, May 2005.Google Scholar
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Index Terms
- Metrics for software system families
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