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Jones, Capers.
  Applied software measurement : global analysis of productivity and
  quality / Capers Jones.—3rd ed.
     p. cm.
  ISBN 978-0-07-150244-3 (alk. paper)
  1.  Software measurement. 2.  Function point analysis.  I. Title.
   QA76.76.Q35J66 2008
   005.1’4—dc22
                                                                                            2008011458

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Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality, Third Edition

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

CAPERS JONES (Narragansett, Rhode Island) is a well-known author, consultant, and speaker in the world of software measurement, metrics, productivity, and quality. He has also appeared as an expert witness in a number of software lawsuits. He was the founder and chairman of Software Productivity Research (SPR), where he retains the title of Chief Scientist Emeritus of SPR. He was awarded a lifetime membership in the International Function Point User’s Group (IFPUG). Jones gives presentations at conferences such as IEEE Software, International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG), the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN), the Japanese Software Symposium on Testing (JaSST), and at scores of in-house corporate and government events.

Dedication

This book is dedicated to Allan Albrecht of IBM, a pioneer in bringing economic measurement to software. Allan and his colleagues were the first to develop function point metrics and therefore allow standard economic measures to be applied to software.

This book is also dedicated to the officers and members of the International Function Point Users Group (IFPUG) who have continued to advance the cause of measuring software economics. The existence of function points and the IFPUG organization have led to further measurement studies carried out by Peter Hill and his colleagues at the International Software Benchmark Standards Group (ISBSG), as well to studies carried out by many affiliated national groups such as the Australian, Netherlands, Japanese, and Brazilian software metrics associations.