NDLI: Using Test Cases to Size Systems: A Case Study

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Schwartz, A.
Copyright Year	2012
Abstract	Productivity, quality and speed are the three key areas that all technology organizations strive to understand. Yet despite the keen interest, the ability to quantitatively measure these aspects of performance often eludes us. Central to the issue is that software development varies significantly in size from project to project making comparisons challenging. Measurement of the size of software is a key component to comparing dissimilar projects. Without a means to normalize for size, drawing conclusions between projects is a nearly impossible task. While solutions have existed to size systems in both lines of code (KLOC) and function points (FP), this paper explores a successful alternative approach to sizing that exhibits the benefits of existing methods with less incentive to manipulate the measurement system and a significantly lower cost. This paper proposes that the number of test cases is a viable measure of system size, available early in the process.
Starting Page	242
Ending Page	246
File Size	244353
Page Count	5
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781467307987
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2012.41
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2012-04-16
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Productivity software sizing function points Correlation Organizations defects test cases Size measurement Software metrics Testing
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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