Title
Enabling Comprehensive Use of Metrics
Abstract
Although software measurements have been used in industry for several decades, it is still difficult for companies to make the most of them. An efficient use of measurements is a fundamental issue - without it, measurement is waste of time and effort. In this paper we present an approach to supporting and boosting the utilisation of measurements at both project and organisational levels. The underlying idea behind the approach is to create a practical measurement utilisation plan. We present how the utilisation plan can be developed and how this approach can motivate software developers and managers to collect and utilise metrics. We also describe the experiences and feedback gained from a case study. We consider our approach as a vital enhancement to existing measurement methods, one to be adopted when aiming at a comprehensive utilisation of measurements. Moreover, our approach prepares the ground for packaging the measurement results in an organisation.
Year
DOI
Venue
2002
10.1007/3-540-36209-6_28
PROFES
Keywords
Field
DocType
comprehensive utilisation,enabling comprehensive use,fundamental issue,utilisation plan,software measurement,efficient use,practical measurement utilisation plan,case study,existing measurement method,software developer,measurement result,software development
Experience feedback,Systems engineering,Software,Boosting (machine learning),Software metric,Engineering,Software development,Software measurement
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
2559
0302-9743
3-540-00234-0
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Outi Salo135221.36
Maarit Tihinen2264.34
Matias Vierimaa3828.39