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

Overview

• A brief review of software metrics

• What exactly does Simetrics do, anyway?

• Simetrics in action

• Work left to do

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

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

Simetrics in action

Work left to do

• Exception handling

• Create more visualization modules

• General debugging and fine-tuning