Toward the improvement of a measurement and evaluation strategy from a comparative study

  • Authors:
  • Fernanda Papa

  • Affiliations:
  • GIDIS_Web, Engineering School at UNLPam, General Pico, LP, Argentina

  • Venue:
  • ICWE'12 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Current Trends in Web Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

For evaluating web applications (WebApps) and other entities in a systematic way and further fostering robust data analysis among projects, measurement and evaluation (M&E) strategies are a valuable asset in any organization. However, the evaluation of the quality of the capabilities for an integrated M&E strategy ---seen as a resource--- has often been neglected. We regard a M&E strategy is integrated if three coexisting capabilities are supported, namely: i) a conceptual framework, ii) a well-established process specification, and iii) an explicit methodological support. Under this premise, we conducted a case study where GQM+Strategies (Goal-Question-Metric), and GOCAME (Goal-Oriented Context-Aware Measurement and Evaluation) strategies were evaluated. The results allowed us to understand the strengths and weaknesses of both strategies. From this understanding we have planned improvement actions and implemented some changes in GOCAME as well. This paper ultimately analyzes the achieved gains after recommended changes were performed.