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- Broomé, Mikael, et al.
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Technical requirements for the implementation of an experience base
- 2000
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Ingår i: Learning Software Organizations : Methodology and Applications - 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 1999, Proceedings - Methodology and Applications - 11th International Conference on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, SEKE 1999, Proceedings. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 0302-9743 .- 1611-3349. - 3540414304 - 9783540414308 ; 1756, s. 87-102
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Reuse of different types of experience is a key issue in successful improvement in software engineering. The approach taken in the Quality Improvement Paradigm (QIP) and its supporting organisation, tile Experience Factory (EF), is to define an Experience Base (EB), where all types of reusable objects are organised and stored. The objects may be of any type related to software development, for example, code, methods, quality models and specifications. Furthermore, not only objects identical to the target object needed can be reused, but also similar ones. This paper defines important concepts in a reuse context, elaborates a reuse scenario from which the requirements for the implementation of an Experience Base are derived. A list of 22 technical requirements is defined which cover the functional aspects related to the use of an Experience Base. The evaluation of three alternative implementation approaches are presented as an example: two database alternatives and one based on Case-Based Reasoning (CBR). Future work is to investigate the costs for extending the functionality to fulfil the requirements and to use the requirements in a real setting.
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- Runeson, Per, et al.
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An evaluation of functional size methods and a bespoke estimation method for real-time systems
- 2000
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Ingår i: Product Focused Software Process Improvement - 2nd International Conference, PROFES 2000, Proceedings. - Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg. - 1611-3349 .- 0302-9743. - 3540676880 - 9783540676881 - 9783540450511 ; 1840, s. 339-352
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Functional size, or function points, is a language-independent measure of software size. It is used as an estimator of development effort and software code size, in particular in the domain of information systems, while in real-time systems it is not so widely spread. In this paper, functional size measurements are empirically evaluated by applying them to a recently completed project. Two established methods, Mark II Function Points (MKII) and Full Function Points (FFP) are used. In addition, a bespoke method that focuses on the information supplied by the requirements specifications at the studied company is developed and evaluated. The method is designed to make effort estimates based on states and transitions in a state machine representation of a requirements specification. The results indicate fairly weak relationships between functional size and LOC for both of the established methods. The bespoke method was applied to the same data and it is concluded that the relationship between the software size according to the new method and the actual code size show better correlation between estimated and real size compared to the analysis for the functional size methods.
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