SMEF 2006

10-12 May 2006

Day 1 (May, 10th)

A Customized Software Measurement System(CSMS): conformity to the SPICE Model

H. Sedehi (Università “La Sapienza” di Roma, Italy); N. Iacovelli (Svimservice, Italy); M. Conte (DPO, Italy); T. Coletta (Italy)

Toward balanced Software Business Measurement

J. Soini, H. Keto, T. Mäkinen (Tampere University of Technology, Finland)

Usage Scenarios for Measurement-based Project Control

J. Heidrich, J. Münch, A.Wickenkamp (Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering, Germany)

A comprehensive, procurement integrated, model for using software metrics and quality requirements in contract definition, supplier monitoring and assessment

A. Amici (Poste Italiane, Italy)

Measuring supplier’s process capability to set up contractual clauses

G. Lami, F. Fabbrini, M. Fusani (Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologia dell’Informazione – CNR, Italy); E. Sivera (FIAT, Italy)

Creating successful outsourcing measurement

C.L. Dekkers (Quality Plus Technologies Inc, USA)

Measurement to Improve Time and Effort Performance

Celestina Bianco (SQA Director, Healthcare Software & Services NTE, S.A.)

Using Contextual Information to Re-architecture a System

M.L. Ponisio, O. Nierstrasz (Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland)

Day 2 (May, 11th)

Introducing the Guideline for the application of COSMIC FFP for Business Applications

T. Dekkers (Shell, Netherland); A. Lesterhuis (Sogeti, Netherland)

A Case Study on the Evaluation of COSMIC-FFP and Use Case Points

C. Gencel, O. Demirors (Middle East Technical University, Department of Information Systems, Turkey) L. Buglione (ETS – Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada; Atos Origin, Italy; P. Efe (Siemens PSE TR, Turkey)

Measuring the functional size of a datawarehouse application using COSMIC-FFP

H. Heeringen (Sogeti, Netherland)

Metrics Based Project Governance

Pam Morris (Total Metrics)

Counting Function Points for Websites

M. Conte, R.Meli, L. Santillo (DPO, Italy)

Software Reuse Evaluation Based on Functional Size Components – Proposed Etalons’ Case Studies

L. Santillo (DPO, Italy) A. Abran (ETS – École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

A Source Code Analysis and Architecture-based Function Point Estimation Method integrated with a Functional Estimation Method

R. Ellafi (CastSoftware, France; R.Meli (DPO, Italy)

Implementing a measurement system in global operating companies

T. Dekkers (Shell, Netherland)

Towards a Service-Oriented Measurement Infrastructure

M. Kunz, R. Braungarten, R. Dumke (Otto-von-Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany); A. Schmietendorf (FHW Berlin School of Economics, Germany)

Suggestions for Improving Measurement Plans: First Results from a BMP Application

R. Dumke (Otto-von-Guericke-University of Magdeburg, Germany); A. Abran, L. Buglione (ETS – Ecole de Technologie Supérieure, Canada)

Addressing Drawbacks of Software Measurement Data Integration

C.Wille, R. Braungarten, R. Dumke (University of Applied Sciences Bingen, Department 2, Germany)

How to Build and Sustain a Measurement Data Management Environment

M. Tihinen, J. Järvinen (VTT Electronics – Solid Information Technology Corp, Finland)

Analyzing Software Fault Trees via a Key Node Metric

D.M. Needham (The Computer Science Department of United States Naval Academy, USA)

Day 3 (May, 12th)

COCOMO II applied in a banking and insurance environment: experience report

L. De Rore, M.Snoeck (K.U. Leuven, Belgium)

Functional Size Measurement and COCOMO – A synergistic approach

T. Rollo (Software Measurement Services Ltd, Grait Britain)

Experiences with the usage of COCOMOII effort estimation in embedded software context

R. Neumann (Fraunhofer IESE, Germany); L. Santillo (DPO, Italy)

Quality of Benchmarking Data

P. Forselius (Software Technology Transfer Finland (STTF), Finland)

An Empirical Analysis of Software Productivity

M. Shepperd, C.Mair (School of IS, Computing & Maths Brunel University Grait Bretagna); P. Forselius (Software Technology Transfer Finland (STTF), Finland)

Achieving Software Development Success – Using Best Practice Planning, Estimation, Tracking and Control

D. Galorath, J. Galorath (Galorath Incorporated, USA)

How to build and sustain Measurement Data Management environment in a SME?

M. Tihinen (VTT, Technical Research Centre of Finland)

A Murphological View on Software Measurement: a serious joke or a funny serious thing?

C. Dekkers (Quality Plus Technologies Inc, USA); L. Buglione (Atos Origin, Italy)