{"title":"Software productivity analysis of a large data set and issues of confidentiality and data quality","authors":"G. Liebchen, M. Shepperd","doi":"10.1109/METRICS.2005.43","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/METRICS.2005.43","url":null,"abstract":"The paper reports on an ongoing investigation into software productivity and its influencing factors. Analysis of a data set containing project management of a large multinational company. The data set contains tables holding information about more than 25000 closed projects collected since 1990. Due to incomplete data only 1413 closed projects could be used for the investigation. Confidentiality was also considered as a major issue. The projects in the data set vary greatly in their productivity. Analysis of productivity and its influencing factors","PeriodicalId":402415,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS'05)","volume":"44 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-09-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126145363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Early & Quick function point: sizing more with less","authors":"L. Santillo, M. Conte, R. Meli","doi":"10.1109/metrics.2005.18","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/metrics.2005.18","url":null,"abstract":"The Early & Quick technique was originally proposed in 1997 for IFPUG Function Points, to size software in early stages of the development process, when functional requirements are still to be established in a detailed form and/or when a rapid measure is needed for existing software from a high-level viewpoint, within limited time. Typical lack of measurement details and requirements volatility in early project stages are overcome by the E&Q approach to provide a size estimate as a significant contribution to early project planning needs. Fundamental principles of the technique are classification by analogy, functionality structured aggregation, and multilevel approach, with statistical validation of numerical ranges. Recently, the technique has evolved, to fully comply with any functional size measurement method (ISO/IEC 14143:1998), so to cover new generation methods (e.g., COSMIC Full FP 2.2) and updated releases of existing methods (e.g., IFPUG FP 4.1 and 4.2). This paper describes the current technique release 2.0, application cases, validation results, supporting tools, and further improvement directions","PeriodicalId":402415,"journal":{"name":"11th IEEE International Software Metrics Symposium (METRICS'05)","volume":"301 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116163159","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}