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Applied Software Measurement: Assuring Productivity and Quality (Hardcover)

by Capers Jones (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 618 pages
  • Publisher: McGraw-Hill Inc.,US; 2nd Revised edition edition (1 Sep 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0070328269
  • ISBN-13: 978-0070328266
  • Product Dimensions: 24.8 x 16.5 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
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Covering the field of software metrics, this text reflects changes brought about by new technologies. This edition includes coverage of object technology, multimedia, and client/server architecture. Real life case studies are presented, as well as statistics from over 6000 projects.

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1.0 out of 5 stars trust your common sense instead. Save your Money!, 3 Mar 1999
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I could neither read the book cover to cover nor expect anyone will accomplish this with sanity. This book is written as a text book that student will buy class notes instead or a self-promotion material which left untouched; Almost all supporting material are assembled from various sources. The author claim it's done to protect its customer's privacy but the result does not make sense and appear to be too much artificial. Besides the lack of "real" hard evidence to demostrate the author's theory, there are too many opinions from places to places. We don't assume a cause of an event by collecting opinions from a group of people. Only an controled experient can proof a theory. Over all the book is poorly written. However, it serve as a good weapon through corporate ladder. It can be uses in two way. Pick it up and hit someone. Its hard cover and weight can result a deadly attack. Otherwise one can pick up technical terms through out the book and make anyone in front of you shut up.

What's good about this book: The mention of function point vs lines of code. The importance of software measurement and it's value. Lastly, it provide you an template of basline report if the CEO ever ask.

What put this book useless: neither example nor explaination on how to calculate function point from a spec or project files. The detailed work require too much labor to accomplish.

Conclusion: a minimum software measurement is essential to evaluate a team's performance. a size of code / bug rate and few other key variables can show the quality and progress of an project. Thus a project schedule can be forcasted and updated. But we need to ask if the author had pushed the case to the extreme so the business solely based on selling measurment report like himself can exist and keep sucking our money.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding, understandable by non technical managers, 10 Feb 1999
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I bought this book as a suppliment to Software Engineering Economics, by Boehm, because of it's later publication date. However, once I read the book I believe that the Boehm should be a suppliment to this work. Before reading this book I was unfamiliar with function points. We are now implementing them in our company. If this book does not bridge the gap between technical and management it goes a long way toward that end.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Care about the quality of your software? Read this., 22 Jan 1998
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It's hard to encapsulate in a few words what this book has done for me since I've started reading it. If you're part of any stage of your company's development cycle and care about the quality of the products you deliver ... this is a must read. Chris Showers Inmar Enterprises
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5.0 out of 5 stars Every software programmer should read Chapter 3
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