Software Process and Product Measurement

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of two joint events - the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2009 and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2009, held in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, in November 2009.

IWSM / Mensura 2009 Proceedings.- Ensuring Reliability of Information Provided by Measurement Systems.- Analysis of the Functional Size Measurement Methods Usage by Polish Business Software Systems Providers.- Leveraging People-Related Maturity Issues for Achieving Higher Maturity and Capability Levels.- A General Model for Measurement Improvement.- What Are the Significant Cost Drivers for COSMIC Functional Size Based Effort Estimation?.- Analysis of the Risk Assessment Methods - A Survey.- Cockpit Based Management Architectures.- A Case Study in COSMIC Functional Size Measurement: The Rice Cooker Revisited.- Functional Size of a Real-Time System.- A Prototypical Simulation Model to Analyze the Business Process Performance.- Improvement Opportunities and Suggestions for Benchmarking.- Functional Size Measurement Quality Challenges for Inexperienced Measurers.- Applying Test Case Metrics in a Tool Supported Iterative Architecture and Code Improvement Process.- Towards an Early Software Effort Estimation Based on Functional and Non-Functional Requirements.- Formalization Studies in Functional Size Measurement: How Do They Help?.- Using Models to Develop Measurement Systems: A Method and Its Industrial Use.- Evaluating Process Quality Based on Change Request Data - An Empirical Study of the Eclipse Project.- Empirical Evaluation of Hunk Metrics as Bug Predictors.- Using Support Vector Regression for Web Development Effort Estimation.- A Comparison of Neural Network Model and Regression Model Approaches Based on Sub-functional Components.- Formal Definition of Measures for BPMN Models.- Using Tabu Search to Estimate Software Development Effort.- An Experimental Study on the Reliability of COSMIC Measurement Results.- Assessing the Documentation Development Effort inSoftware Projects.