Software Metrics: Best Practices for Successful IT Management

Chapter 1: Software Metrics: What and Why?

Figure 1.1: Test Defects Report

Figure 1.2: Field Defects Report

Chapter 2: An Overview of Function Point Analysis

Figure 2.1: FPA Example

Chapter 4: Cost Estimation

Figure 4.1: Estimation Template

Figure 4.2: Role of the Support Group

Figure 4.3: Typical Process Diagram

Figure 4.4: Monitoring and Feedback (Actual vs. Estimates)

Figure 4.5: Monitoring and Feedback (Estimate vs. Effort)

Figure 4.6: Monitoring and Feedback (Variation Actual Against Initial Estimate)

Chapter 5: Applied Design Metrics

Figure 5.1: McCabe Metrics Background Theory Example of Flowgraph (1)

Figure 5.2: McCabe Metrics Background Theory Example of Flowgraph (2)

Figure 5.3: McCabe MetricsBackground Theory Example of Reduced Flowgraph (1)

Figure 5.4: McCabe Metrics Background Theory — Example of Reduced Flowgraph (2)

Figure 5.5: Aspects of Complexity

Chapter 7: A Lifecycle for Metrication

Figure 7.1: Software Metrics Initiative Context Diagram

Figure 7.2: Level 1 Lifecycle Model

Chapter 8: Stage 1 - Initiation

Figure 8.1: Initiation Stage of a Software Metrics Program

Chapter 9: Stage 2: Requirements Definition

Figure 9.1: Relationships Between a Standard Lifecycle, Software Metrics and Project Management

Figure 9.2: Potential Phases of a Software Metrics Program (Not to scale)

Figure 9.3: Level 1 Engineering Process

Figure 9.4: Functional Linkage

Figure 9.5: Traditional Organization Hierarchy

Figure 9.6: Work, Task and Linkages Within the Requirements Specification Stage

Chapter 10: Stage 3: Component Design

Figure 10.1: Tasks and Links Within Design Stage (Showing Dependencies Between Streams)

Figure 10.2: Example Organization of Staff Support Infrastructure

Chapter 11: Stage 4: Component Build

Figure 11.1: Building the Components of a Software Metrics Program

Figure 11.2: Targets

Chapter 13: Section 2: A Summary

Figure 13.1: A Project-Based Approach

Figure 13.2: Topic Scope

Figure 13.3: Basic Strategy

Figure 13.4: Initiation Stage

Figure 13.5: Requirements Specification

Figure 13.6: Component Design 1

Figure 13.7: Component Design 2

Figure 13.8: Component Design 3

Figure 13.9: Component Build

Figure 13.10: Implementation

Figure 13.11: Implementation 2

Chapter 15: The Home Stretch

Figure 15.1: The CMM Process Maturity Framework

Figure 15.2: Performance