Objective
The objective of MUSE was to produce demonstrable quality and reliability metrics focused on three specific application domains: safety, management and clerical systems. These metrics were applied to real software development projects to provide experimental trials data and user reactions for their analysis and evaluation. The research staff included specialists from the fields of software engineering, artificial intelligence, human factors and statistics. In addition, external fields such as construction, engineering and manufacturing were surveyed to see if they had quality and reliability paradigms of relevance to software.
In addition to researching and testing both domain-specific metrics and generic metrics for the selected areas, the project sought to establish a basis for new generation metrics using AI methods.
The objective was to produce demonstrable quality and reliability metrics focused on 3 specific application domains: safety, management and clerical systems. These metrics were applied to real software development projects to provide experimental trials data and user reactions for their analysis and evaluation. In addition to researching and testing both domain specific metrics and generic metrics for the selected areas, the project sought to establish a basis for new generation metrics using artificial intelligence (AI) methods. Following a comparative survey in USA and Europe, the quality and reliability metrics and factors for use in the project were selected. The project achieved a discrimination between 3 applications (clerical, management and safety systems), which is new and probably quite marketable. Many other relevant activities and studies were pursued, such as on usability, on the relation between prototyping and metrics, and on software quality aspects of trans-European information systems. Demonstrations were made of: SAMSON, an expert system for measuring and assessing the quality of safety critical systems; SMACK, the use of quality tools integrated within a smalltalk environment; and ATHENA, tools for complexity measurements and maintenance assistance.
Following a comparative survey in USA and Europe, the quality and reliability metrics and factors for use in the project were selected.
The project achieved a discrimination between three applications (clerical, management and safety systems), which is new and probably quite marketable.
Many other relevant activities and studies were pursued, such as on usability, on the relation between prototyping and metrics, and on software quality aspects of trans-European information systems.
The project was involved in UK and ISO standard software Q & R panels.
Demonstrations were made of:
-SAMSON, an Expert System for measuring and assessing the quality of safety critical systems
-SMACK, the use of quality tools integrated within a smalltalk environment
-ATHENA, tools for complexity measurements and maintenance assistance.
A MUSE Metrics Handbook book has been issued which also outlines all the main project results.
Activities are now supported by partners through projects 5494 (AMI) and 5425, PYRAMID.
Relations with Japanese quality societies have been established.
Exploitation
Software quality and reliability metrics in the field of safety, management and clerical systems are of immediate interest for the European IT industry, and all project deliverables which are public can be requested to the project consortium.
The SAMSON prototype is to become a commercial product being already requested for use by several companies.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software software development
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- natural sciences computer and information sciences artificial intelligence expert systems
- social sciences psychology ergonomics
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GU11 1TJ Aldershot
United Kingdom
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