Reiner Dumke Livres

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of three joint events - the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2008, the DASMA Metrik Kongress, Metrikon 2008, and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement, Mensura 2008, held in Munich, Germany, in November 2008. The 30 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from over 50 submissions for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on estimation models, measurement methodology, effort estimation, measurement programs, new approaches, prozessbewertung, size measurement, education, measurement in software lifecycle, and product measurement.

Software developers face the challenge of delivering high-quality and safe software products while managing costs to maintain competitive advantages. Reliable measurement is crucial in addressing this challenge. "Software measurement is an excellent abstraction mechanism for learning what works and what doesn't" (Victor Basili). Measuring software processes and products yields valuable information for evaluating development processes and product quality. Recent successes in software measurement include the evaluation of new development methods, quality improvement programs, tool-support initiatives, and company-wide measurement programs. The German Computer Science Interest (GI) Group of Software Metrics and the Canadian Interest Group in Software Metrics (CIM) have focused on these issues in recent years. Initial research efforts concentrated on defining software metrics, followed by validation and practical applications, alongside critical analyses of the benefits and weaknesses of measurement programs. Key findings in this area have been documented in significant publications, such as Dumke and Zuse's Theory and Practice of Software Measurement, Ebert and Dumke's Software Metrics in Practice, and Lehner, Dumke, and Abran's Software Metrics.

Der vorliegende Band präsentiert Beiträge eines Workshops zu Forschung und Anwendung auf dem Gebiet der Software-Messung und -Bewertung, der im September 2001 an der Universität Kaiserslautern stattfand. Im Vordergrund stehen die Anwendung von Software-Metriken in der Praxis sowie die Untersuchung neuer Software-Systeme hinsichtlich ihrer qualitativen und quantitativen Eigenschaften. Dabei werden insbesondere Verfahren zur Kosten- und Aufwandsschätzung, z. B. die Full-Function-Point-Methode, betrachtet und ihre Anwendungen für eingebettete Systeme analysiert. Einen Schwerpunkt bildet die Beschreibung der neuesten nationalen Initiative zur Unterstützung der Software-Entwickler mit Erfahrungsdaten und -hinweisen zum Einsatz unterschiedlicher Software-Technologien.

Initially, computer systems performance analyses were carried out primarily because of limited resources. Due to ever increasing functional complexity of computational systems and user requirements, performance engineering continues to play a major role in software development. This book assesses the state of the art in performance engineering. Besides revised chapters drawn from two workshops on performance engineering held in 2000, additional chapters were solicited in order to provide complete coverage of all relevant aspects. The first part is devoted to the relation between software engineering and performance engineering; the second part focuses on the use of models, measures, and tools; finally, case studies with regard to concrete technologies are presented. Researchers, professional software engineers, and advanced students interested in performance analysis will find this book an indispensable source of information and reference.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM 2000, held in Berlin, Germany in October 2000. The 10 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers are organized in topical sections on object-oriented software measurement, software process improvement, function-point-based software measurement, software measurement of special aspects, improving the software measurement process.

Die Software-Metrie als junge Disziplin der Informatik fokussiert sich auf die Messung und Qualitätssicherung in der Softwareentwicklung. Das Buch vermittelt praxisrelevante Grundlagen und stellt verschiedene Verfahren, Metriken und Tools vor, um die Softwareproduktion zu optimieren. Es richtet sich an Studenten, Praktiker und Entscheidungsträger und bietet sowohl einen gezielten Einstieg als auch einen umfassenden Überblick. Besonders für Wirtschaftsinformatiker ist dieses Werk von Bedeutung, da es die Schnittstelle zwischen Technik und Wirtschaft beleuchtet.