Software measurement and estimation : a practical approach / Linda M. Laird, M. Carol Brennan.

Table of contents
1 Introduction
1.1 Objectives/1
1.2 Approach/2
1.3 Motivation/3
1.4 Summary/5
References

2 What to Measure
2.1 Method1:The Goal Question Metrics Approach/9
2.2 Method 2:Decision Maker Model/ 10
2.3 Method 3: Standards Driven Metrics/10
2.4 Extension to GQM: Metrics Mechanism
2.5 What measure is a Function of time/12
Etc

3.Measurement Fundamentals
3.1 Intial measurement Exercise/15
3.2 The challenge of Measurement /16
3.3 Measurement Models /16
3.4 Meta-Model for Metrics /20
3.5 The power Measurement/21
Etc


4.Measuring Size
4.1Physical Measurements of Software/34
4.2Measuring Functionality /40
4.3Summary/ 51

5. Measuring Complexity
5.1 Structural Complexity/55
5.2 Conceptual Complexity/73
5.3 Computational complexity/74
5.4 Summary/75

6.Estimating Effort
6.1Effort Estimation : Where Are We? /80
6.2Software Estimation Methodologies and Models /81
6.3Combining Estimates/107
6.4Estimating Issues/108
6.5Estimating Early and Often/112
etc

7.In Praise of Defects: Defects and Defect Metrics
7.1Why study and measure defects? /118
7.2Faults Versus Failures/119
7.3Defect Dynamics and Behaviours/120
7.4Defect projection Techniques and Models/123
7.5Additional Defect Benchmark Data/133
Etc

8. Software Reliability Measurement and Prediction
8.1Why Study and measure software Reliability?/144
8.2What is Reliability?/144
8.3Faults and failures/145
8.4failure severity classes/145
8.5Failure Intensity/146
Etc


9.Response Time and Availability
9.1Response time measurements/168
9.2avialability/170
9.3Summary/177

10.Measuring progress
10.1 Project milestones/182
10.2 Code integration/185
10.3 Testing progress/187
10.4 defects Discovery and closure /188
10.5 process Effectiveness/192

11.Outsourcing
11.1 The 'o' word/197
11.2 Defining outsourcing/198
11.3 Risk management and outsourcing/201
11.4 Metrics and the contract/203
11.5 Summary/206


12.Financial measures for the software engineer
12.1 Its all about the green/208
12.2 financial concepts/209
12.3 building the business case/209
12.4 living the Business case/224
12.5 summary/224

13.Benchmarking
13.1 what is Benchmarking?/231
13.2 Why benchmark?/232
13.3 what to Benchmark/232
13.4 Identifying and Obtaining a Benchmark/233
13.5 collecting actual Data/233

14.Presenting Metrics Effectively to management
14.1 Decide on the Metrics/239
14.2 Draw the Picture/240
14.3 Create a Dashboard/243
14.4 Drilling for Information/243
14.5 Example for the Big Cheese/247

Index

Includes bibliographical references and index.