SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT MONITORING GRAPHS.

Two different software tools that can be utilized in software development projects by management, systems analysts, and programmers are developed. These tools are collectively called monitoring graphs. The first type of monitoring graph is called a complexity graph. It is used to represent the complexity of a program or a system of programs. The second type of monitoring graph is called a development graph. It is used in the control of a software project. These monitoring graphs basically look like Kiviat graphs which are used in performance evaluation studies. Fundamentally, a complexity graph is a circle with eight axes. The values to be represented on each axis are obtained from a set of prediction equations which are generated through multiple linear regression analysis. These complexity graphs can further be grouped into three different types depending on the type of data represented on each axis. The usefulness of the complexity graphs is tested on a set of COBOl and FORTRAN programs.