Software Measurement : A Visualization Toolkit for Project Control and Process Improvement

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Synopsis
The best way for software project managers to improve their processes is to visualize them. This book presents a methodology and software that accomplish just that. The CD-ROM contains new PAMPA (Project Attribute Monitoring & Prediction Association) software for Windows 95 and Windows NT.

From the Back Cover
Visualize software project success with PAMPA! PAMPA is Project Attribute Monitoring and Prediction Associate, a powerful on-line tool for gathering data and measuring, predicting, and tracking the objects, attributes and relationships at the heart of software development. With PAMPA you can:

*Increase customer satisfaction
*Reduce defects
*Improve productivity
*Decrease costs

The key is visualization. PAMPA gives form to the concepts and metrics that many developers have considered not merely invisible, but unvisualizable. Using the techniques explained in Software Measurement, you can use PAMPA to gain control over the parallel cycles of project control and process improvement. Project attributes can be displayed as:

*Graphical trees
*Tables
*Radar charts
*2-D graphs
*3-D graphs

Software Measurement begins with an overview of software process visualization. Quality systems criteria and standards are applied to the concepts of life cycle processes and project object classes. With this foundation, the discussion goes on to specific models and metrics, including:

*Scale
*Development Time
*Productivity
*Quality
*Reliability
*Usability

Verification, validation, and testing techniques complete the picture. Appendices include a complete Users Manual for PAMPA and a guide to its object classes. Software Measurement will be a valuable asset for software developers, team leaders, and project managers, as well as students of software engineering, and anyone involved in software metrics and process improvement. The accompanying CD-ROM, for use on Windows' NT 3.5 or later and Windows 95, contains everything you need to put PAMPA to work on your next software project. 0-13-840695-2

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