Simetrics A Smart Metrics Visualization Tool

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SimetricsA Smart Metrics Visualization Tool

• Team 04
• Derek Eiler
• Herman Leong
• Nathan Penrod
• Mac O. Roni

Advisors Dr. Sergiu Dascalu Dr. Yaakov Varol Dr.
Norm Brown Mr. Brian Westphal
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Overview

• A brief review of software metrics
• What exactly does Simetrics do, anyway?
• Simetrics in action
• Work left to do

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A brief review of software metrics

• Measurable factors in the software development
  process
• Help indicate potential problems in the
  development process
• Used by project managers to produce quality
  software in a timely manner
• Defining new, more informative metrics is an
  active area of research

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What exactly does Simetrics do, anyway?

• Creates PowerPoint presentations from data in
  Excel spreadsheets, using visualization modules
• Provides a user interface for configuring modules
• Allows the use of new modules to increase
  functionality
• Provides a framework of functions to simplify the
  development of new modules via a visualization
  interface

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Simetrics in action
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Work left to do

• Exception handling
• Create more visualization modules
• General debugging and fine-tuning