Recommendations for an Initial Set of Software Metrics

Abstract

The Contel Technology Center's Software Engineering Laboratory (SEL) has as one of its goals the improvement of productivity and quality throughout Contel Corporation. The SEL's Process and Metrics Project addresses that goal in part by recommending metrics to be collected on each software development project throughout the corporation. This report suggests an initial set of metrics for which data are to be collected and analyzed, based on a process maturity framework developed at the Software Engineering Institute. Metrics are to be implemented step by step in four phases, corresponding to the maturity of the development process. Phase I metrics focus on project management. Phase II metrics measure the products produced during development, while Phase III metrics capture characteristics of the development process itself. Phase IV adds feedback loops to the process metrics, so that metrics play an active and ongoing role in assessing and controlling the development process from the very beginning of a project.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 12, 1989
Accession Number
ADA269262

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