Data collection, analysis, and sharing strategies for enabling software measurement and model building

• Authors: Richard W. Selby
• Venue: Proceedings of the 2006 international conference on Empirical software engineering issues: critical assessment and future directions
• Year: 2006

Successful software measurement and model building require effective strategies for data collection, analysis, and sharing. We summarize a template for data sharing arrangements, apply this template to two data collection environments, and illustrate the resulting data analyses using actual empirical studies.