The estimation of software project attributes, such as size, is important for software
project resource planning and process control. However, research regarding software
attribute modeling, such as size, effort, and cost, are high-level and static in nature. This
research defines a new operation-level software project attribute that describes the
operational characteristic of a software project. The result is a measurement based on the
s-curve parameter that can be used as a control variable for software project
management. This result is derived from modeling the count of artifact instances created
by the software engineering process, which are stored by software tools. Because of the
orthogonal origin of this attribute in regard to traditional static estimators, this s-curve
based software attribute can function as an additional indicator of software project
activities and also as a quantitative metric for assessing development team capability.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/ETD-TAMU-2039 |
| Date | 15 May 2009 |
| Creators | Ma, Norman K. |
| Contributors | Lively, William McCain, Simmons, Dick Bradford |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | thesis, text |
| Format | electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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