Measures for Software Product Lines

Abstract

This technical note characterizes the status of measurement associated with the operation of a software product line, suggests a small set of measures to support its management, and provides guidance for those establishing measurement activities within a software product line. It is intended to help managers of software product lines develop a set of base measures for tracking those categories of needs most relevant to their organization's products, projects, and processes. The measures suggested here range from relatively mature to those whose general utility have yet to be validated. Therefore, an organization using this paper needs to assess its ability to generate the measures and the value they are likely to return to the organization. In most cases, an organization may wish to start with a subset of the measures described.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2003
Accession Number
ADA418393

Entities

People

  • David Zubrow
  • Gary J. Chastek

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Commerce
  • Configuration Management
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Infrastructure
  • Investments
  • Measurement
  • Product Development
  • Productivity
  • Project Management
  • Software Design
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Standards
  • United States

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Defense Acquisition Program Management