“The ICT sector is critical to Australia’s national and global economic performance and it is important to understand the contribution the sector makes to the overall economy. However, measuring ICT is broader than measuring the ICT sector alone.” The Australian Government appears to be upping the ante on the US NIST approach we looked at […]
Tags: Software Metrics“The current state – of – the – art of systems engineering is inadequate to provide the scientific foundations needed to develop the systems of the future.” The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has featured in previous QESP Newsletter articles over the years, most recently in BYOD: New Guidance on a Big […]
Tags: Software MetricsIn 2014, social media represents a massive and growing opportunity for marketing/communications strategies, using big data and analytics. There is massive and growing disagreement in the ICT industry on how to measure the effectiveness of those strategies. This is not new. Over the past few years, advice from industry marketing gurus has ranged from “100 […]
Tags: Social Media, Software Metrics2013–2017 Forecast and 2012 Vendor Shares: Leveraging Code Insight to Avert Risk and Optimize Businesses This IDC study provides a 2013–2017 forecast and 2012 vendor share analysis for the worldwide software quality analysis and measurement market, which experienced 14.2% growth to $441.3 million in 2012 revenue (up from $386 million in 2011 with slightly less […]
Tags: Software Metrics, Software Quality, Software TestingIntroduction Part 1 of this article set out some of the issues associated with software sizing which contribute to high cost of benchmarking. Part 1 also discussed Automated Function Functions as one potential solution. This second part focuses on new research which seeks to reduce benchmarking costs in another way – by simplifying the IFPUG […]
Tags: Software MetricsIntroduction The benchmarking of software delivery processes is a standard activity for good governance of ICT. For this, an organisation may make use of external benchmarking specialists, benchmark in-house or take a hybrid approach. However it is done, there is usually a significant cost associated with the benchmarking. A key contributor to the cost is […]
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