期刊
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
卷 28, 期 7, 页码 625-637出版社
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2002.1019478
关键词
software tools; version control system; effort analysis
Software tools can improve the quality and maintainability of software, but are expensive to acquire, deploy, and maintain, especially in large organizations. We explore how to quantify the effects of a software tool once it has been deployed in a development environment. We present an effort-analysis method that derives too[ usage statistics and developer actions from a project's change history (version control system) and uses a novel effort estimation algorithm to quantify the effort savings attributable to tool usage, We apply this method to assess the impact of a software tool called VE, a version-sensitive editor used in Bell Labs. VE aids software developers in coping with the rampant use of certain preprocessor directives (similar to #if/#endif in C source files). Our analysis found that developers were approximately 40 percent more productive when using VE than when using standard text editors.
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