Software Process and Product Measurement: International Conference, IWSM–MENSURA 2007, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, November 5-8, 2007, Revised Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (4895))

Annotation This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the International Workshop on Software Measurement, IWSM-Mensura 2007, held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain, in November 2007. The 16 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book. The papers deal with aspects of software measurement like function-points measurement, effort and cost estimates, prediction, industrial experiences in software measurement, planning and implementing measurement, measurement-based software process improvement, best practices in software measurement, usability and user interaction measurement, measurement of open source projects, teaching and learning software measurement as well as new trends and ontologies for software measurement Front Matter....Pages - Improving the Quality of Information for Software Project Management....Pages 1-20 Software Cost Estimation Models Using Radial Basis Function Neural Networks....Pages 21-31 Towards an Early Usability Evaluation for Web Applications....Pages 32-45 An Empirical Study of Process and Product Metrics Based on In-process Measurements of a Standardized Requirements Definition Phase....Pages 46-59 Preliminary Results in a Multi-site Empirical Study on Cross-Organizational ERP Size and Effort Estimation....Pages 60-71 Do Base Functional Component Types Affect the Relationship between Software Functional Size and Effort?....Pages 72-85 Experiences on Using Software Experiments in the Validation of Industrial Research Questions....Pages 86-94 How to Measure Agile Software Development....Pages 95-101 Assessment of Software Process and Metrics to Support Quantitative Understanding....Pages 102-113 Developing and Applying a Consolidated Evaluation Framework to Analyze Test Process Improvement Approaches....Pages 114-128 Using Controlled Experiments for Validating UML Statechart Diagrams Measures....Pages 129-138 Adapting the COSMIC Method for Evaluating the Functional Size in PR i M....Pages 139-153 Implementing Software Measurement Programs in Non Mature Small Settings....Pages 154-167 Non-Functional Requirements Size Measurement Method (NFSM) with COSMIC-FFP....Pages 168-182 Assessment of Real-Time Software Specifications Quality Using COSMIC-FFP....Pages 183-194 Analysis of Software Functional Size Databases....Pages 195-202 Back Matter....Pages - Juan J Cuadrado-gallego ... [et Al.] (eds.) Includes Bibliographical References And Author Index.