Mprove quality and efficiency of EDA software development

It is essential for companies that develop software today to work on process improvement. However, determining the appropriate and realistic tasking of the process improvement is the key point. Measurements in sojiware organizations are an important source of control over quality and cost in software development. Software metrics are the measurement tools. Those meirics are meaningless without using their information in decisionmaking and improved organizational performance. Effective management of the Software Life Cycle is the key to successful software projects and it is a never-ending challenge. As a multi-national software company, we are targeting increase of productivity and product quality, and to decrease the response time to market. Based on the historical data, we figure out an appropriate estimate to each subtask in the project. Measuring actuals and comparing them with estimates is the tool to revisit our plans for tracking the progress in the project and update them ifneeded. Index Terms Software metrics programs, software development, measurement programs, software engineering.