The SEI and NAWC: Working Together to Establish a Software Measurement Program

Abstract

In 1990, the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and the then Naval Air Development Center (NADC) in Warminster, Pennsylvania (now Naval Air Warfare Center, Aircraft Division, Warminster) signed an agreement to jointly develop a software measurement program for NADC - Warminster. To help with that development, a software measurement process action team (SMPAT) was formed with members from the SEI and NADC. The SMPAT's responsibility was to plan, develop, and assist in the implementation of the measurement program. The purpose of this technical report is to document and make available to the software community the process and methods used, experience gained, and some lessons learned in establishing the software measurement program at NADC. This report is meant to help organization that desire to start a software measurement program or have been struggling with such a program by providing an example of one organization that has also struggled to establish a software measurement program. To help an organization, real-life examples of how software measures were defined, collected, and used to improve the management process are included.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Dec 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA280916

Entities

People

  • James A. Rozum

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aerial Warfare
  • Compilers
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computers
  • Configuration Management
  • Data Analysis
  • Engineering
  • Lessons Learned
  • Operating Systems
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Systems Engineering
  • Teamwork
  • Test And Evaluation
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Organizational Process Management (OPM).
  • Software Engineering.