SOFTWARE METRICS, TOWARD BUILDING PREDICTION MODELS

Alsmadi IzzatEducation: PhD in software engineering at NDSU ( May 2008).
Selected Published Papers
Using XML Trees to Represent GUI States?. SERP 08. USA.
The Utilization of User Sessions in Testing?. (ICIS 2008).
Open source evolution analysis.(ICSM'06).
Model Checking Aspect-Oriented Design Specification.(COMPSAC'07)

This book includes the details about a project for
developing a software metric tool to gather several
code metrics from most of the known types of codes
such as .cs, .vb, .java, .html, .c, .h, .cpp, .jsp,
..etc.). The book also includes guidelines to build
software prediction model to be used for cost
estimation. A prediction model in a company utilizes
the earlier projects and gather the metrics from
them in order to be able to make cost and project
plannings for future ones. The book includes the
different stages of development such as requirements
gathering, design, implementation and testing. The
project related to this paper was originally
developed to Honeywell aviation as they were trying
to make usage of their large number of earlier
projects as a guidance for newer projects. This can
be easy as it is used and measured by the same
company. In general a limitation in the prediction
model is that we cant always apply models from
different companies or industry sectors.