Thesis outline

The final tech report of 699 will be the draft of my thesis. The semester is half way through, it is time to think about it again to put something new to it.

Development on project portfolio page goes well. But my literature review is far behind schedule. I need to catch up with it now.

Here is the outline of my thesis:

1. Introduction

2. Related work

• 2.1 Software Product and Process Metrics

2.1.1 Product Metrics (Coverage, Complexity)

2.1.2 Process Metrics (LOC, Churn, DevTime)

• 2.2 Software Project Portfolios

2.2.1 Risk Based Software Project Portfolio

2.2.2 Some other Portfolios

3. Research Questions

• 3.1 How useful is this approach?
• 3.2 Does the system successful achieve its goal?
  

4. System Description

• 4.1 Overview
• 4.2 Portfolio Table

4.2.1 Sparklines

4.2.2 Evaluation color rules

• 4.3 User Configurations
• 4.4 Portfolio Definitions
  

5. Experiment Design and Analysis

• 5.1 Research Approach
  
• 5.2 Classroom Evaluation
• 5.3 Industry Approach
  

6. Future directions