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*     WISE: THE WWW-INTEGRATED SOFTWARE METRICS ENVIRONMENT       *
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*     http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/projects/WISE/wise.html        *
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*     Sponsored by the NASA Software IV&V Facility and the        *
*       Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at          *
*                   West Virginia University                      *
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The Web-Integrated Software metrics Environment (WISE) is the first
WWW-based software management and metrics system available on the
WWW. WISE is a WWW-based tool that provides a framework for managing
software development projects across the Web. Programmers and managers
can log issue reports, track the status of issues, and view project
metrics using standard WWW browsers. WISE provides a non-intrusive
method to coordinate project activities and allow software development
teams to view their progress and performance.

The purpose of the WISE project is to demonstrate the viability of
metrics collection and use in our own projects. Our project was
inspired by the Experience Factory work by Basili, McGarry and
Pajurski at the NASA Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL). WISE was
developed as a "practice what you preach" approach to getting software
organizations to collect and use metrics in the management of small
and large scale software development efforts.

The WISE project is sponsored through a cooperative research agreement
between the NASA Software IV&V Facility in Fairmont, West Virginia and
the Concurrent Engineering Research Center (CERC) at West Virginia
University in Morgantown, West Virginia.

To find out more about the WISE system, you can access the WISE Home
Page at URL:

           http://research.ivv.nasa.gov/projects/WISE/wise.html

The WISE project management software is currently under internal
development, use, and test. To run the WISE Beta version, you will
need the following platform and tools:

	Any UNIX platform (for the server)
        Netscape version 1.1 (or any WWW browser with tables) 
	mSQL (a public domain database server for an ANSI SQL subset)



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