A Software Cost Model of Reuse within a Single System

Cruickshank, Robert; Gaffney, John E.

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-78878-9_6

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“…This similarity is named "internal" when a module or process created for a system is used multiple times within the same system and "external" when a module from a different system is used one or more times within a new system [3]. Reuse of similar functions makes significant difference for the effort required not only in coding phase but also in requirements, design, testing, and maintenance phases.…”

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A Clustering Based Functional Similarity Measurement Approach

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Ungan

et al. 2010

2010 36th EUROMICRO Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications

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Effort prediction remains to be one of the greatest challenges of software management. While advances in functional size measurement enable functional size to be successfully utilized for effort prediction there are various factors that create significant variances. One of these factors is functional similarity. In this study, we developed, automated and validated an approach to determine similarities among functional processes for COSMIC functional size measurement methodology. The paper includes the explanation of this new approach and the results of the case study that has been performed to validate the approach.

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A Clustering Based Functional Similarity Measurement Approach

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Automating output size and reuse metrics in a repository-based computer-aided software engineering (CASE) environment

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Wright

et al. 1994

IIEEE Trans. Software Eng.

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AUTOMATING OUTPUT SIZE AND SOFTWARE REUSE METRICS IN A REPOSITORY-BASED COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING (CASE) ENVIRONMENT ABSTRACTMeasurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it is discouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) technologies --especially repository-based, integrated CASE --have the potential to support the automation of this measurement. In this paper, we discuss the development of automated analyzers for function point and software reuse measurement for object-based CASE. Both analyzers take advantage of the existence of a representation of the application system that is stored within an object repository, and that contains the necessary information about the application system. We also discuss metrics for software reuse measurement, including reuse leverage, reuse value and reuse classifcation, that are motivated by managerial requirements and the efforts, within industry and the IEEE, to standardize measurement. The functionality and the analytical capabilities of state-of-the-art automated software metrics analyzers are illustrated in the context of an investment banking industry application, that is similar to systems deployed at the New York City-based investment bank where these tools were developed and tested.

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