Paper Info
Title
Improving the experience for software-measurement system end-users: A story of two companies.
Abstract
© 2018 Context: Software measurement systems are used in large companies to provide developers with up-to-date feedback and metrics. Objective: However, the front-ends of these systems are often not ready to provide a real-time experience for the end-users, who sometimes have to wait minutes before visualizations are provided. Method: In this paper, we present the case studies of two large international companies and compare alternative technological setups for measurement system front-ends used and explored within these companies. We use a publicly available data-set for a performance evaluation and to analyze the results. Results: For both companies we found significant performance differences between the alternative setups. However, in one of the companies these differences are not there for large data-sets. Furthermore, we found that not all setups enable the visualization of the newest available data. Conclusions: Our results indicate that the choice of the visualization component has a larger impact on the performance than the choice of the data storage. However, companies are also willing to invest into setups that ensure that visualized measures are always up-to-date.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1016/j.infsof.2018.06.006
Information and Software Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
Measurement systems,End-user experience,Performance
Data science,System of measurement,End user,Systems engineering,Computer data storage,Computer science,Visualization,Software measurement
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
103
0950-5849
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
19
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Haoyu Wang14613.75
Regina Hebig217924.24