Paper Info
Title
MeSRAM – A method for assessing robustness of measurement programs in large software development organizations and its industrial evaluation
Abstract
We present a model to quickly assess a robustness of a measurement program in industry.Our method was applied at seven large software development companies.Measurement programs differ based on the development process. 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.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1016/j.jss.2015.10.051
Journal of Systems and Software
Keywords
Field
DocType
Measurement program,Software engineering,Metrics,Case study
Systems engineering,Computer science,Robustness (computer science),Software development,Scalability
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
113
C
0164-1212
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
4
0.45
50
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Miroslaw Staron148652.25
Wilhelm Meding221218.66