New Approaches in Software Measurement

Software measurement is one of the key technologies employed to control and manage the software development process. Research avenues such as the applicability of metrics, the efficiency of measurement programs in industry, and the theoretical foundations (of software engineering?) have been investigated to evaluate and improve modern software development areas such as object-orientation, compone- based develop-ment, multimedia systems design, reliable telecommunication systems etc. In the tradition of our software measurement research communities, the German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group on Software Measurement and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have attended to these concerns in recent years. Initially, research initiatives were directed at the definition of new methods of software measurement and the validation of these methods themselves. This was then followed by more and more investigation into practical applications of software measurement and key findings in this area of software engineering have been published in: - Dumke/Zuse: Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, 1994 - Ebert/Dumke: Software-Metriken in der Praxis, 1996 - Lehner/Dumke/Abran: Software Metrics - Research and Practice in Software Measurement, 1997 - Dumke/Abran: Software Measurement - Current Trends in Research and Practice, 1999 We would also like to mention that the proceedings of the Lac Supérieur workshop have been made available on the web at lrgl. uqam. ca? This new book includes the proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Software Measurement held in Berlin in October 2000.

Object-Oriented Software Measurement.- Impact of Inheritance on Metrics for Size, Coupling, and Cohesion in Object-Oriented Systems.- Measuring Object-Orientedness: The Invocation Profile.- CEOS - A Cost Estimation Method for Evolutionary, Object-Oriented Software Development.- A Measurement Tool for Object Oriented Software and Measurement Experiments with It.- Investigations in Software Process Improvement.- Estimating the Cost of Carrying out Tasks Relating to Performance Engineering.- Measurement in Software Process Improvement Programmes: An Empirical Study.- Improving Validation Activities in a Global Software Development.- A Generic Model for Assessing Process Quality.- Maturity Evaluation of the Performance Engineering Process.- Function-Point-Based Software Measurement.- COSMIC FFP and the World-Wide Field Trials Strategy.- Extraction of Function-Points from Source-Code.- Early & Quick COSMIC-FFP Analysis Using Analytic Hierarchy Process.- Software Measurement of Special Aspects.- Measuring the Ripple Effect of Pascal Programs.- An Assessment of the Effects of Requirements Reuse Measurements on the ERP Requirements Engineering Process.- A New Metric-Based Approach for the Evaluation of Customer Satisfaction in the IT Area.- Utility Metrics for Economic Agents.- Improving the Software Measurement Process.- QF2D: A Different Way to Measure Software Quality.- Using FAME Assessments to Define Measurement Goals.- Mapping Processes Between Parallel, Hierarchical, and Orthogonal System Representations.