Alain Abran

Abstract:  The ISO (International Organization for Standardization) 14143-1 document is the first in a set of five documents constituting the international standard on Functional Size Measurement for software. This first document specifies a mandatory set of concepts required for functional size measurement and tackles it from a measurement method perspective. This is a unique perspective in contrast to other standardization work in progress on software. This article presents a structured analysis of this ISO 14143-1 to analyze its completeness and mapping to measurement principles and related concepts. This analysis is carried out following the structure of a process model for software engineering measurement methods identifying the distinct steps involved, from the design of a measurement method to the exploitation of the measurement results. For each step of this process model, the proposed analysis identifies the strengths and weaknesses of this ISO 14143-1 standard. A summary of key strength...