Measures For Excellence: Reliable Software On Time, Within Budget

Measures For Excellence: Reliable Software On Time, Within Budget, 1/e

Lawrence Putnam, Quantitative Software Management

Published October, 1991 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Software Engineering--Advanced-Computer Science

Summary

This volume explores the ideas that underlie the software life cycle, methods for estimating the size of a proposed project, and ways to apply the techniques to estimating “management numbers” — i.e., effort, development time and number of errors.

Features

discusses life-cycle models, cost estimating, life-cycle management, productivity analysis, and tracking and control.
shows how to apply the software life-cycle model using manual methods of computation.
outlines the powerful planning and estimating capabilities that become available when the life-cycle method is computerized.

Table of Contents
I. SOFTWARE BEHAVIOR.

1. Fundamental Software Trends.
2. The Software Equation.
3. The Life Cycle Model.
4. Software Size Estimating.
5. There Is a Minimum Development Time.
6. Management Tradeoff Opportunities.
7. Estimating the Number of Software Defects.
8. Project Plans Affect Product Reliability.
9. Make your Estimating Database Accessible.
10. Tracking and Control.
11. Improving Process Productivity.
12. How to Manage a Productivity Program.
13. Somebody Has To Think.

II. APPLICATIONS.