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Communications of the ACM
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IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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ICSE '89 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Software engineering
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Proceedings of the European symposium on Software development environments and CASE technology
Productivity analysis of software development with an integrated CASE tool
ICSE '92 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Software engineering
Information commodities and the production process: how the introduction of case tools affects the software development life cycle
Assessing the State of Tools Assessment
IEEE Software
Capability Maturity Model, Version 1.1
IEEE Software
A Methodology for Evaluating Software Engineering Methods and Tools
Proceedings of the International Workshop on Experimental Software Engineering Issues: Critical Assessment and Future Directions
CASCON '94 Proceedings of the 1994 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
The IBM-McGill project on software process
CASCON '91 Proceedings of the 1991 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
The impact of inserting a tool into a software process
CASCON '93 Proceedings of the 1993 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research: software engineering - Volume 1
The Impact of Tools on Software Productivity
IEEE Software
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In large-scale software development, tools are frequently adopted at high cost, to increase quality and productivity. A method for quantitative analysis of the impact of such tool insertions would allow an organization to plan and assess tool insertions. However, currently, there are no practical methods available to accomplish such an analysis. The "Tool Insertion Impact Analysis Method" (TIM/Impact) has been developed to address this deficiency. TIM/ Impact uses quantitative process modeling to analyze tool insertion impact throughout a range of alternative scenarios of processes and project sizes. The method has been validated through a case study in the context of large-scale industrial software development. In this paper, TIM/Impact is introduced, and the data gathered in the study is described and analyzed. In the context of the study, it was found that the process used in the project and the size of the project play a significant role in determining whether the insertion of a tool is an improvement or rather a waste of resources. It was also found that it is always necessary to increase the allocated resources in order to improve quality, even if a tool is introduced, but through the insertion of a tool, quality improvement can be considerably cheaper than without inserting a tool. It is concluded that TIM/Impact can be a valuable aid for making decisions on how a process should be carried out. By providing resource requirement estimates, TIM/Impact can guide the selection of an appropriate technology and process.