Software Measurement : Current Trends in Research and Practice

I. Software Measurement History and Future Directions -- Thirty Years of Software Measurement -- Function Point Evolution -- II. Software Measurement Foundations -- Metrics Validation Proposals: A Structured Analysis -- On the use of a Segmentally Additive Proximity Structure to Measure Object Class Life Cycle Complexity -- Attribute-Based Model of Software Size -- Multidimensional Software Performance Measurement Models: A Tetrahedron-based Design -- A Pastry Cook’s View on Software Measurement -- III. Software Measurement Applications -- Measuring Legacy Database Structures -- REST — A Tool to Measure the Ripple Effect of C and C++ Programs -- Y2K from a Metrics Point of View -- Software Metrics for Multimedia Languages -- Improving Reliability of Large Software Systems -- Prototype of a Software Metrics Database for industrial use -- IV. Function Point Foundations and Applications -- Comparison between FPA and FFP: a field experience -- Function Point Counts Derived from SAP Business Scenario Requirements.