Evaluating software engineering methods and tool part 5: the influence of human factors

  • Authors:
  • Barbara Ann Kitchenham;Lindsay Jones

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Keele, Staffs ST5 5BG, England;Private Consultant, 10 Clifford Road, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK11 8QF

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

In previous articles, we have considered a number of general issues concerned with evaluating methods and tools. In the next few articles we describe how to perform a specific type of evaluation exercise called Feature Analysis.This article discusses the principles of feature analysis and describes how to identify features and establish a means of scoring products against those features. Later articles consider how to plan a feature-based evaluation and how to analyze the results of an evaluation.