Case Study in Software Maintenance - published by the SEI in 1993, this document dentified the various standards bodies of the time and described their relationships and how the standards evolved.
Field Studies Using Functional Size Measurement in Building Estimation Models for Software Maintenance - In Journal of Software Maintenance: Research and Practice Volume 14 , Issue 1 (January 2002), available to subscribers from the ACM Portal:
This paper reports on two field studies carried out on the use of functional size measures in building estimation models for sets of maintenance projects implementing small functional enhancements in existing software. The first field-study reports on models built with 15 projects making functional enhancements to an internet-based software program for linguistic applications. The second field study analyses 19 maintenance projects on a single real-time embedded software program in the defense industry. Both field studies collected functional size measures using version 2.0 of the COSMIC-FFP functional size measurement method. Also both field studies classified projects into two classes of project difficulty in order to aid identifying subsets of projects with greater homogeneity in the relationship of project effort to functional size. This paper is the first published paper reporting on the use this second generation of functional size-measurement methods in a maintenance-estimation context.
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