MeSRAM - A method for assessing robustness of measurement programs in large software development organizations and its industrial evaluation

• Measurement programs in large software development organizations contain a large number of indicators, base and derived measures to monitor products, processes and projects. The diversity and the number of these measures causes the measurement programs to become large, combining multiple needs, measurement tools and organizational goals. For the measurement program to effectively support organization's goals, it should be scalable, automated, standardized and flexible - i.e. robust. In this paper we present a method for assessing the robustness of measurement programs. The method is based on the robustness model which has been developed in collaboration between seven companies and a university. The purpose of the method is to support the companies to optimize the value obtained from the measurement programs and their cost. We evaluated the method at the seven companies and the results from applying the method to each company quantified the robustness of their programs, reflecting the real-world status of the programs and pinpointed strengths and improvements of the programs. (C) 2015 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Ämnesord

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

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

Nyckelord

Measurement program

Software engineering

Metrics

Case study

fault prediction

measurement systems

metrics

agile

quality

collaboration

performance

complexity

framework

Computer Science

ACTICE

PT 11st International Conference on Design

User Experience

and Usability (DUXU)/14th

OCEEDINGS25th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2003)

MAY 03-10

2003

rtland

or

p564

OGRAMMING

XP 201314th International Conference on Agile Processes in Software Engineering and

VELOPMENT5th International Conference on Software Quality Days (SWQD)

JAN 15-17

2013

Vienna

OCESS AND PRODUCT MEASUREMENT (IWSM-MENSURA)Joint Conference of the 23rd International

actice

v23

p89

RUM (ISESS 97) - EMERGING INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS

PROCEEDINGS3rd IEEE International

rtland

or

p641

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