Title :
Metric-driven analysis and feedback systems for enabling empirically guided software development
Author :
Selby, Richard W. ; Porter, Adam A. ; Schmidt, Doug C. ; Berney, Jim
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
Abstract :
The authors summarize the goals of metric-driven analysis and feedback systems and describe a prototype system, Amadeus, which defines abstract interfaces and embodies architectural principles for these types of systems. Metric-driven analysis and feedback systems enable developers to define empirically guided processes for software development and maintenance. The authors provide an overview of the Amadeus system operation, including an example of the empirically guided process, a description of the system characteristics, an explanation of the system conceptual operation, and a summary of the users´ view of the system. The centerpiece of the system is a pro-active server, which interprets scripts and coordinates event monitoring and agent activation. Amadeus provides an extensible framework for adding new empirically based analysis techniques
Keywords :
feedback; software maintenance; software metrics; Amadeus; abstract interfaces; architectural principles; coordinates; empirically guided software development; feedback systems; maintenance; metric driven analysis; overview; scripts; server; system characteristics; Application software; Calendars; Computer architecture; Computer science; Feedback; Information analysis; Programming; Prototypes; Software maintenance; Software measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Software Engineering, 1991. Proceedings., 13th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Austin, TX
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2140-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICSE.1991.130654