Title :
CAME tools for an efficient software maintenance
Author :
Dumke, Reiner R. ; Winkler, Achim S.
Author_Institution :
Fac. of Comput. Sci., Magdeburg Univ., Germany
Abstract :
Describes the role of metrics tools as computer-assisted software measurement and evaluation (CAME) tools in the software life-cycle, especially in the maintenance phase. Most CAME tools are designed for code analysis and measurement, and these are predestined to be applied in the implementation and maintenance development phases, but more and more tools are being developed for the earlier phases of software development, to estimate the effort, complexity and size of the software that is to be created. This paper provides an overview of the present situation in the area of CAME tools and discusses their efficient use in software maintenance
Keywords :
computer aided software engineering; software maintenance; software metrics; software tools; CAME tools; code analysis; code measurement; computer-assisted software evaluation; computer-assisted software measurement; efficient software maintenance; effort estimation; implementation phase; maintenance development phase; overview; software complexity estimation; software development; software life-cycle; software metrics tools; software size estimation; Application software; Capability maturity model; Coordinate measuring machines; Programming; Software maintenance; Software measurement; Software testing; Software tools; Statistical analysis; USA Councils;
Conference_Titel :
Software Maintenance and Reengineering, 1997. EUROMICRO 97., First Euromicro Conference on
Conference_Location :
Berlin
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-7892-5
DOI :
10.1109/CSMR.1997.583011
