Analytical Methods in Software Engineering Economics
Analytical Methods in Software Engineering Economics

Author: Thomas R. Gulledge

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 251

ISBN-13: 3642777953

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This volume presents a selection of the presentations from the first annual conference on Analytical Methods in Software Engineering Economics held at The MITRE Corporation in McLean, Virginia. The papers are representative of the issues that are of interest to researchers in the economics of information systems and software engineering economics. The 1990s are presenting software economists with a particularly difficult set of challenges. Because of budget considerations, the number of large new software development efforts is declining. The primary focus has shifted to issues relating to upgrading and migrating existing systems. In this environment, productivity enhancing methodologies and tools are of primary interest. The MITRE Software Engineering Analysis Conference was designed to address some of th,~ new and difficult challenges that face our profession. The primary objective of the conference was to address new theoretical and applications directions in Software Engineering Economics, a relatively new discipline that deals with the management and control of all segments of the software life-cycle. The discipline has received much visibility in the last twenty-five years because of the size and cost considerations of many software development and maintenance efforts, particularly in the Federal Government. We thank everyone who helped make this conference a success, especially those who graciously allowed us to include their work in this volume.

Software Engineering Economics
Software Engineering Economics

Author: Barry W. Boehm

Publisher: Prentice Hall

Published: 1981

Total Pages: 806

ISBN-13:

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Software Engineering Economics is an invaluable guide to determining software costs, applying the fundamental concepts of microeconomics to software engineering, and utilizing economic analysis in software engineering decision making.

Software Engineering Economics and Declining Budgets
Software Engineering Economics and Declining Budgets

Author: Pamela T. Geriner

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2012-12-06

Total Pages: 224

ISBN-13: 3642788785

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Software Engineering Economics is a relatively new discipline that deals with all segments of the software life cycle. The discipline has received much visibility in recent years because of the size and cost considerations of many software development and maintenance efforts. This book places additional emphasis on the Federal Government`s Information Resource Management initiative and deals with related issues such as Business Re-engineering, Functional Economic Analysis, Organizational Process Modelling and the Economics of Reuse.

Economics-Driven Software Architecture
Economics-Driven Software Architecture

Author: Ivan Mistrik

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2014-06-03

Total Pages: 380

ISBN-13: 0124105076

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Economics-driven Software Architecture presents a guide for engineers and architects who need to understand the economic impact of architecture design decisions: the long term and strategic viability, cost-effectiveness, and sustainability of applications and systems. Economics-driven software development can increase quality, productivity, and profitability, but comprehensive knowledge is needed to understand the architectural challenges involved in dealing with the development of large, architecturally challenging systems in an economic way. This book covers how to apply economic considerations during the software architecting activities of a project. Architecture-centric approaches to development and systematic evolution, where managing complexity, cost reduction, risk mitigation, evolvability, strategic planning and long-term value creation are among the major drivers for adopting such approaches. It assists the objective assessment of the lifetime costs and benefits of evolving systems, and the identification of legacy situations, where architecture or a component is indispensable but can no longer be evolved to meet changing needs at economic cost. Such consideration will form the scientific foundation for reasoning about the economics of nonfunctional requirements in the context of architectures and architecting. - Familiarizes readers with essential considerations in economic-informed and value-driven software design and analysis - Introduces techniques for making value-based software architecting decisions - Provides readers a better understanding of the methods of economics-driven architecting

Software Engineering
Software Engineering

Author: Richard W. Selby

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2007-06-04

Total Pages: 835

ISBN-13: 047014873X

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This is the most authoritative archive of Barry Boehm's contributions to software engineering. Featuring 42 reprinted articles, along with an introduction and chapter summaries to provide context, it serves as a "how-to" reference manual for software engineering best practices. It provides convenient access to Boehm's landmark work on product development and management processes. The book concludes with an insightful look to the future by Dr. Boehm.

Software Project Management
Software Project Management

Author: Moh’d A. Radaideh

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2023-12-18

Total Pages: 536

ISBN-13: 3111206866

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Software Project Management (SPM) differs from the Traditional Project Management (PM) approaches in that Software Engineering requires multiple rounds of Software Testing, and Updating in accordance with their Testing results and their customer’s feedback. Thus, SPM introduces unique life cycle processes.This book presents an introduction and a critical analysis of the main Software Project Management Frameworks, and offers the author’s original approach to SPM as developed by him over years of professional and teaching experience in the Academia and the IT/Software Industry. It also provides Executive Summaries of the Project Management and Software Project Management Perspectives offered by the Project Management Institute (PMI), the IEEE-Computer Society (IEEE-CS), and the SCRUM Project Management Bodies such as the SCRUMstudy.

Component-Based Software Engineering
Component-Based Software Engineering

Author: Ivica Crnkovic

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2004-05-12

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 3540219986

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Component-Based Software Engineering, CBSE 2004, held in Edinburgh, UK in May 2004 as an adjunct event to ICSE 2004. The 12 revised long papers and 13 revised short papers presented together with the abstracts of 2 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 82 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on generation and adoptation of component-based systems, tools and building frameworks, components for real-time embedded systems, extra-functional properties of components and component-based systems, and measurement and prediction models for component assemblies.

Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management
Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management

Author: Wim Van Grembergen

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9781878289902

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The evaluation of IT and its business value are the subject of many academic and business discussions. Investments in IT are growing extensively, and business managers worry about the fact that the benefits might not be as high as expected. This phenomenon is often called the IT investment paradox or the IT Black Hole: large sums are invested in IT that seem to be swallowed by a large black hole without rendering many returns. How to measure the benefits of IT is the concern of this book titled Information Technology Evaluation Methods and Management. The different IT evaluation approaches and methods are discussed and illustrated with cases: traditional financial evaluations such as the return on investment, information economics and the recently introduced IT Balanced Scorecard. The latter approach is proposed as an ideal mechanism to support the IT/business alignment process and its related IT governance process. Among some of the topics included in this book are: software measurement; ERP project evaluation; strategic electronic commerce evaluation.

Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures
Managing Trade-offs in Adaptable Software Architectures

Author: Ivan Mistrik

Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann

Published: 2016-08-12

Total Pages: 432

ISBN-13: 0128028912

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Managing Trade-Offs in Adaptable Software Architectures explores the latest research on adapting large complex systems to changing requirements. To be able to adapt a system, engineers must evaluate different quality attributes, including trade-offs to balance functional and quality requirements to maintain a well-functioning system throughout the lifetime of the system. This comprehensive resource brings together research focusing on how to manage trade-offs and architect adaptive systems in different business contexts. It presents state-of-the-art techniques, methodologies, tools, best practices, and guidelines for developing adaptive systems, and offers guidance for future software engineering research and practice. Each contributed chapter considers the practical application of the topic through case studies, experiments, empirical validation, or systematic comparisons with other approaches already in practice. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, how to architect a system for adaptability, software architecture for self-adaptive systems, understanding and balancing the trade-offs involved, architectural patterns for self-adaptive systems, how quality attributes are exhibited by the architecture of the system, how to connect the quality of a software architecture to system architecture or other system considerations, and more. - Explains software architectural processes and metrics supporting highly adaptive and complex engineering - Covers validation, verification, security, and quality assurance in system design - Discusses domain-specific software engineering issues for cloud-based, mobile, context-sensitive, cyber-physical, ultra-large-scale/internet-scale systems, mash-up, and autonomic systems - Includes practical case studies of complex, adaptive, and context-critical systems

Designing Software Architectures
Designing Software Architectures

Author: Humberto Cervantes

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional

Published: 2016-04-29

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0134390830

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Designing Software Architectures will teach you how to design any software architecture in a systematic, predictable, repeatable, and cost-effective way. This book introduces a practical methodology for architecture design that any professional software engineer can use, provides structured methods supported by reusable chunks of design knowledge, and includes rich case studies that demonstrate how to use the methods. Using realistic examples, you’ll master the powerful new version of the proven Attribute-Driven Design (ADD) 3.0 method and will learn how to use it to address key drivers, including quality attributes, such as modifiability, usability, and availability, along with functional requirements and architectural concerns. Drawing on their extensive experience, Humberto Cervantes and Rick Kazman guide you through crafting practical designs that support the full software life cycle, from requirements to maintenance and evolution. You’ll learn how to successfully integrate design in your organizational context, and how to design systems that will be built with agile methods. Comprehensive coverage includes Understanding what architecture design involves, and where it fits in the full software development life cycle Mastering core design concepts, principles, and processes Understanding how to perform the steps of the ADD method Scaling design and analysis up or down, including design for pre-sale processes or lightweight architecture reviews Recognizing and optimizing critical relationships between analysis and design Utilizing proven, reusable design primitives and adapting them to specific problems and contexts Solving design problems in new domains, such as cloud, mobile, or big data