Using Models to Develop Measurement Systems: A Method and Its Industrial Use

• Making the measurement processes work in large software development organizations requires collecting right metrics and collecting them automatically. Collecting the right metrics requires development custom measurement systems which fulfill the actual needs of the company. Effective communication between stakeholders (persons who have the information needs) and the designers of measurement systems are cornerstones in identifying the right metrics and the right amount of them. In this paper we describe a method for developing measurement systems based on models which make this communication more effective. The method supports the designers of measurement systems and managers, for whom the measurement systems are created, in developing more effective measurement systems based on MS Excel. The method comprises of platform independent modeling, platform specific modeling and automated code generation. This method has been used in one of action research projects at Ericsson. We present the results of the evaluation of this method at Ericsson by the end of this paper.

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences (hsv//eng)

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metrics

software engineering

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