Title :
Analyzing change effort in software during development
Author :
Evanco, William M.
Author_Institution :
Coll. of Inf. Sci. & Technol., Drexel Univ., Philadelphia, PA, USA
Abstract :
We develop ordinal response models to explain the effort associated with non-defect changes of software during development. The explanatory variables include the extent of the change, the change type, and the internal complexity of the software components undergoing the change. The models are calibrated on the basis of a single software system and are then validated on two additional systems
Keywords :
management of change; software metrics; statistical analysis; change effort analysis; change type; explanatory variables; internal complexity; non-defect changes; ordinal response models; software components; software system; Educational institutions; Information science; Predictive models; Programming; Software measurement; Software systems; Statistical analysis; Statistics; Telephony; Time measurement;
Conference_Titel :
Software Metrics Symposium, 1999. Proceedings. Sixth International
Conference_Location :
Boca Raton, FL
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0403-5
DOI :
10.1109/METRIC.1999.809739
