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Exploring How Feature Usage Relates to Customer Perceived Value: A Case Study in a Startup Company

This paper investigates how usage of features relate to their perceived value and shed light into the factors affecting this relationship and shows that feature usage metric has a significant potential to estimate value of features.

Feature Usage Diagram for Feature Reduction

A modelling notation, so called Feature Usage Diagram, and an approach to identify and visualize the required information for decision makers when reducing features, which has potential to support developers when making decisions for feature reduction.

Software Product Size Measurement Methods: A Systematic Mapping Study

This study presents the results of a systematic mapping study on software size estimation metrics and methods. The methods are investigated based on the entity type(s) measured by the method, size attribute type, size measure(s), and theoretical/empirical validation status of the method, and restriction with respect to functional domain type(s) and software development methodology applicability. Based on the results of the survey, we provide a discussion on the current state of the art in software sizing.

Feature Usage as a Value Indicator for Decision Making

Automated Feature Identification in Web Applications

An approach and an associated tool to automate feature identification for web applications are presented and it is indicated that there is a good potential for automating feature identification in web applications.