Software Engineering Productivity Handbook
, by Keyes, Jessica
- ISBN: 9780079113665 | 0079113664
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 1/1/1993
Prominent professionals show you the most successful techniques and methods available to boost software engineering productivity and increase profitability. 5.25 inch disk included. DLC: Software engineering.
| Contributors | |
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| A Survey on IT Productivity/Quality | p. 3 |
| A Systems Methodology: A Rating and Evaluation Guide | p. 27 |
| Methodology as a Productivity Tool | p. 45 |
| Information Engineering: Strategic Systems Development | p. 61 |
| Application Development Productivity in the '90s | p. 83 |
| A Natural Productivity in Object-Orientation | p. 97 |
| Improving Software Engineering Practice: The Challenge of Technology Transition | p. 119 |
| Software Reliability and Productivity | p. 131 |
| Software Process Improvement at Hewlett-Packard: A Partnership Approach | p. 149 |
| Managing the Quality of Software Development | p. 159 |
| Staffing Factors in Software Cost Estimation Models | p. 175 |
| Counting Function Points | p. 191 |
| Applying Function Points to Object-Oriented Software Models | p. 229 |
| Putting a Measurement Program in Place | p. 245 |
| Tracking the Life Cycle Trajectory: Metrics and Measures for Controlling Productivity of Computer-Aided Software Engineering (CASE) Development | p. 263 |
| Automating Software Testing | p. 285 |
| Winners and Losers: Management's Role in Orchestrating the Change that Comes with CASE | p. 297 |
| Why Do Many Good Tools Fail in Practice? | p. 311 |
| Software and the Factory Paradigm | p. 321 |
| Increasing Quality and Productivity with a "Development Before the Fact" Paradigm | p. 335 |
| Requirements Elicitation and Specification for Computer - Supported Cooperative Work | p. 357 |
| The Reengineering Life Cycle | p. 395 |
| Selecting and Integrating a Repository Workbench | p. 409 |
| How to Build a Successful Visual Information Access System | p. 429 |
| The Productivity Impact of Parallel Processing | p. 441 |
| Quality Management: The Secret to High Productivity | p. 455 |
| Kellner's Nontechnological Issues in Software Engineering | p. 475 |
| Martin and Carey Survey of Success in Converting Prototypes to Operational Systems | p. 479 |
| Putnam's Trends in Measurement, Estimation, and Control | p. 483 |
| Sprague's Technique for Software Configuration Management in a Measurement-based Software Engineering Program | p. 485 |
| Corbin's Methodology for Establishing a Software Development Environment | p. 489 |
| Couger's Bottom-up Approach to Creativity Improvement in IS Development | p. 493 |
| Shetty's Seven Principles of Quality Leaders | p. 497 |
| Simmons' Statistics Concerning the Effect that Communications Has on Group Productivity | p. 501 |
| Gould's Points on Usability | p. 505 |
| Prescott's Guidelines for Using Structured Methodology | p. 509 |
| Kemayel's Controllable Factors in Programmer Productivity | p. 513 |
| ATandT's "Estimeeting" Process for Developing Estimates | p. 517 |
| Burns' Framework for Building Dependable Systems | p. 523 |
| Avison's Multiview Meta-Methodology | p. 527 |
| Byrne's Reverse Engineering Technique | p. 531 |
| Prieto-Diaz's Reusability Model | p. 535 |
| Farbey's Considerations on Software Quality Metrics during the Requirements Phase | p. 539 |
| Redmill's Quality Considerations in the Management of Software-based Development Projects | p. 543 |
| Contel's Software Metrics in the Process Maturity Framework | p. 547 |
| Kydd's Technique to Induce Productivity through Shared Information Technology | p. 551 |
| Bellcore's Software Quality Metrics | p. 553 |
| Keyes' Value of Information | p. 557 |
| Pfleeger's Method for CASE Tool Selection Based on Process Maturity | p. 559 |
| McCabe's Complexity Metric | p. 563 |
| Halstead's Effort Measure | p. 565 |
| DEC's Overview of Software Metrics | p. 567 |
| Hewlett-Packard's (Total Quality Control) TQC Guidelines for Software Engineering Productivity | p. 571 |
| Motorola's Six Sigma Defect Reduction Effort | p. 575 |
| Lederer's Management Guidelines for Better Cost Estimating | p. 577 |
| Kanter's Methodology for Justifying Investment In Information Technology | p. 581 |
| The "Make-Buy" Decision | p. 585 |
| Software Selection from Multiple Packages | p. 587 |
| COCOMO Model | p. 589 |
| IEEE Standard Dictionary of Measures to Produce Reliable Software | p. 591 |
| IEEE Framework for Measures | p. 597 |
| Gillies' Method for Humanization of the Software Factory | p. 601 |
| Pfleeger's Approach to Software Metrics Tool Evaluation | p. 605 |
| Maiden's Method for Reuse of Analogous Specifications through Human Involvement in Reuse Process | p. 609 |
| Tate's Approaches to Measuring the Size of Application Products with CASE Tools | p. 613 |
| Linkman's Method for Controlling Programs through Measurement | p. 617 |
| Zachman's Framework | p. 621 |
| Malcolm Baldridge Quality Award | p. 625 |
| Bharadwaj and Mattson's Programming Environments for Parallel Distributed Computing | p. 629 |
| Index | p. 637 |
| About Jessica Keyes | p. 652 |
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