Knowledge Management of Software Productivity and Development Time

• 作者: Ata Nahouraii James A. Rodger Pankaj Pankaj
• 来源期刊: 软件工程与应用(英文)
• 学科: 工学
• 关键词: SOFTWARE Engineering SOFTWARE Metrics FOURTH Generation LANGUAGES CASE TOOLS Field Study TOOLS And Techniques Models And Principles Team Size VOLATILITY DEVELOPMENT Platform And Type Productivity Elapsed DEVELOPMENT Time
• 年，卷（期）: 2011,（11）
• 页码范围: 609-618
• 页数: 10页
• 分类号: TP3

摘要

In this paper, we identify a set of factors that may be used to forecast software productivity and software development time. Software productivity was measured in function points per person hours, and software development time was measured in number of elapsed days. Using field data on over 130 field software projects from various industries, we empirically test the impact of team size, integrated computer aided software engineering (ICASE) tools, software development type, software development platform, and programming language type on the software development productivity and development time. Our results indicate that team size, software development type, software development platform, and programming language type significantly impact software development productivity. However, only team size significantly impacts software development time. Our results indicate that effective management of software development teams, and using different management strategies for different software development type environments may improve software development productivity.