This paper makes the business case for automating the collection ofsoftware metrics for gauging development performance in integratedcomputer aided software engineering (CASE) environments that arecharacterized by an object-oriented development methodology and acentralized repository. The...

Automated collection of software metrics in computer aided software engineering (CASE) environmentsopens up new avenues for improving the management of software development operations, as well asshifting the focus of management's control efforts from quot;software...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in order to control software costs, but it isdiscouragingly labor-intensive and expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE) technologies --especially repository-based, integrated CASE -- have the potential to support the...

Measurement of software development productivity is needed in orderto control software costs, but it is discouragingly labor-intensiveand expensive. Computer aided software engineering (CASE)technologies -- especially object-oriented, integrated CASE --have the potential to support the...

An examination of code reuse at a large financial institution yields insightsinto the process of code reuse. The software development environment -- basedon an integrated CASE system -- was designed to support code reuse, but at theend of its first two years we find that programmers are not...