Measurement and estimation of effort of software configuration management activities / Medição e estimação de esforços de atividades de gerencia de configuração de software

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2006

RESUMO

This work deals with estimation and measurement of the effort necessary to apply Software Configuration Management (SCM) to a particular organization s projects, aiming to: make the SCM team able to report the monthly effort of analysts in performing SCM activities, providing visibility of the demand generated by the projects; 2) estimate the effort necessary to apply SCM to new projects, enabling to adequate the work force to the new demand. The approach for effort measurement consisted of two steps: 1) identification of the activities in SCM for which it makes sense to record effort; 2) development of a tool to record all activities performed by SCM team. Data acquired by the tool were used to track, analyze and report the monthly effort of each analyst and to identify the factors which affect the effort required by the projects, enabling definition of parameters and of an estimation method. To systematize this method s usage another tool was developed; it identifies the new project s characteristics, their relationship with the factors which affect the effort and estimates the number of hours required monthly in the application of SCM, based on finished projects data. The estimation method has been applied to current projects, for which the monthly consumed effort is known and whose data were not used for tool calibration. The obtained results are satisfactory and both tools are currently being used in the organization

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software configuration management redes em anel (redes de computação) software - desenvolvimento - estimativa software engineering software gerenciamento de configurações de software engenharia de software

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