Improving Functional Product Availability: Software-related Measures Planned and Taken

Measures for Software Product Lines

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Improving Software Development Economics Part II: Reducing Software Product Complexity and Improving Software Processes

Improving Software Functional Size Measurement

Software functional size measurement is regarded as a key aspect in the production, calibration and use of software engineering productivity models because of its independence of technologies and of implementation decisions. In 1997, Full Function Points (FFP) was proposed as a method for measuring the functional size of real-time and embedded software. Since its introduction, the FFP measureme...

Improving Product Availability in Hospitals: the Role of Inventory Inaccuracies

All players in the healthcare industry face increasing public and political pressure to improve quality of care and control costs. Hospitals, on the frontline of this challenge, face nursing shortages and financial constraints. Survey data indicate that missing medication and supplies interrupt nurses more than twice per shift, increasing costs and putting patients at risk. These challenges per...

Theoretical and Empirical Validation of Software Product Measures

In this paper we present a concrete method for validating software product measures for internal attributes and provide guidelines for its application. This method integrates much of the relevant previous work, such as measurement theory, properties of measures, and GQM. We identify two types of validation: theoretical and empirical. The former addresses the question “is the measure measuring t...