Software Metrics GQM Assignment

This assignment is a group assignment. Each is composed of not more than 5 members. Suppose that you are going to recommend buying a copy machine to your company for system wide use. You have devised two copy machines with the specifications given below. Your task is to advise the decision making committee which one is better. Write about 2 pages of report using the measurement concepts and metrics terminology to compare and recommend/not recommend one and explain why. Machine 1: A high-speed black and white laser printer with 640MHz processor, 128Mbyte memory, 100Mbyte hard disk, 20ppm printing speed, 100 base-T network adapter Card. The toner costs about $200 for 4,000 pages output. 200 pages optional paper tray. Makers data says that the system should run without failure for 4,000 pages. Price $900. Machine 2: A low-speed colour laser printer with 128MHz processor, 32Mbyte memory, 100Mbyte hard disk, 8ppm printing speed, network adapter Card is optional $300. The toner costs about $500 for 4,000 pages output. 100 pages optional paper tray. Makers data says that the system should run without failure for 4,000 jobs. Price $1,200.

You must come up with a crisp suggestion that the manager will base her/his decision on it. Using models, graphs and/or tables to back up the argument are considered better than reporting in narrative style. Some useful hints are: Defining the scales for the attributes that are going to be compared, mapping the measured (given) values to the scales and discuss the properties of the scales. Defining a model for the requirement assessment from both the manager and user viewpoints. Issues with goal, quality and compatibility of the parameters, such as developing a GQM model. Defining a quality model based on the attributes and trying to map the measured (given) values to the model.