Home>Teaching> Empirical Software Measurement
| Academic Year | 2012/2013, 2nd semester |
| Lecturer: | Barbara Russo |
| Lecture: | Tuesday 8:30 - 10:30, room E420 (start: February 26) |
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Thursday 8:30 - 10:30, room E420 (start: February 26) |
| Lab: | Tuesday 10:30 - 12:30, room E420 |
| Office hours: | Thursday 10:30 - 12:30 or email arrangement, office POS 1.16 |
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Syllabus |
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Introduction to Measurement Theory |
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Examples of Internal and external measure of software product |
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Examples of measure of process |
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The Goal Question Metric Paradigm |
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The Business Motivation Model |
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Experimental design |
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The PROBE method in PSP |
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COCOMO II |
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Axioms on measures |
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Software evolution: measurement over time |
Further details can be found in the Course Presentation Form
Course outline
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Lecture # |
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Week 1 |
Lecture 1 |
Introduction to the course. Introduction to Measurement Theory |
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Lecture 2 |
Introduction to Measurement Theory
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Week 2 |
Lecture 3 |
Measures of product |
Internal/external. Internal Measure of Size |
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Lecture 4 |
Measure of product |
Internal Measure of Structure |
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Week 3 |
Lecture 5 |
Measure of product |
Change, Churn, logical couplings External measures: failures vs faults, defects
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Lecture 6 |
Measure of process |
Effort, Commits,… |
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Week 4 |
Lecture 7 |
Relation among measures |
COCOMO, PROBE |
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Lecture 8 |
Controversial on measures |
The confounding effect of size |
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Week 5 |
Lecture 9 |
Controversial on measures |
CK measures |
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Lecture 10 |
Axioms on measures |
Weyuker’s properties Morasca, etc |
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Week 6 |
Lecture 11 |
Empirical strategies |
Determining what to Measure: GQM |
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Lecture 12 |
Empirical strategies |
Determining what to Measure: GQM |
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Week 7 |
Lecture 13 |
Empirical strategies |
Determining what to Measure: BMM and the SAF framework aligning strategies and process activities |
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Lecture 14 |
Empirical strategies |
Methods: surveys, case studies, experiments |
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Week 8 |
Lecture 15 |
Experiment process |
Definition of variables, groups and treatments |
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Lecture 16 |
Experiment Planning |
Context selection; Hypothesis formulation; variables selection |
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Week 9 |
Lecture 17 |
Determining how to measure |
Experimental design |
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Lecture 18 |
Experiment Validity |
Threats |
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Week 10 |
Lecture 19 |
Empirical strategies |
Data collection, data preprocessing |
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Lecture 20 |
Empirical strategies |
Replications |
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Week 11 |
Lecture 21 |
Invited speaker |
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Lecture 22 |
Literature review Synthesis |
EBSE |
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Week 12 |
Lecture 23 |
Presentation and packages |
How to write a report / article |
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Lecture 24 |
Presentation and packages |
How to review an article |
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