Abstract
Software development is a discipline with specific management difficulties.
Collecting relevant data during development is a way to overcome these
difficulties. Such data collection for sqftware development is termed "Software
Measurement". Software measurement is a powerful aid to quality improvement
of products and processes. A well-known and popular software measurement
approach is the Goal/Question/Metric approach (GQM). This chapter presents
available techniques for GQM measurement and a research road map to enhance
GQM into a mature measurement approach. The main conclusion is that GQM
promises to become the international standard for software measurement.
However, the emphasis of the method must be focused on the interpretation
process of measurement data and tools must become available that support this
interpretation process. Organisations should start to recognise that improved
understanding by developers is the only way to continuous improvement. Only
bottom-up approaches, such as GQM, provide this understanding. Bottom-up
improvement must be applied in practice. It is recommended to apply top-down
improvement approaches, such as the Capability Maturity Model, in parallel with
software measurement.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Achieving software product quality |
| Editors | E.P.W.M. Veenendaal, van, J. McMullan |
| Place of Publication | 's Hertogenbosch |
| Publisher | Tutein Nolthenius |
| Pages | 45-61 |
| ISBN (Print) | 90-72194-527 |
| Publication status | Published - 1997 |