Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Software metrics (2nd ed.): a rigorous and practical approach
Validation of an Approach for Improving Existing Measurement Frameworks
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
What Makes for Effective Measurement?
IEEE Software
Establishing Software Measurement Programs
IEEE Software
Implementing a Software Metrics Program at Nokia
IEEE Software
Software Measurement: A Necessary Scientific Basis
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards a Framework for Software Measurement Validation
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
An Operational Process for Goal-Driven Definition of Measures
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
V-GQM: A Feed-Back Approach to Validation of a GQM Study
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
Best Practices in Software Measurement
Best Practices in Software Measurement
An approach to improving existing measurement frameworks
IBM Systems Journal
Automated support for process-aware definition and execution of measurement plans
Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Software engineering
A goal question metric based approach for efficient measurement framework definition
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM/IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering
Measuring where it matters: Determining starting points for metrics collection
Journal of Systems and Software
A framework for the design and verification of software measurement methods
Journal of Systems and Software
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
A framework for developing measurement systems and its industrial evaluation
Information and Software Technology
Guidelines for conducting and reporting case study research in software engineering
Empirical Software Engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
What's up with software metrics? - A preliminary mapping study
Journal of Systems and Software
Towards Behavioral Reflexion Models
ISSRE '09 Proceedings of the 2009 20th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering
Developing measurement systems: an industrial case study
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
Evaluation and Measurement of Software Process Improvement—A Systematic Literature Review
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
A Methodology for Collecting Valid Software Engineering Data
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
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Software organizations face challenges in managing and sustaining their measurement programs over time. The complexity of measurement programs increase with exploding number of goals and metrics to collect. At the same time, organizations usually have limited budget and resources for metrics collection. It has been recognized for quite a while that there is the need for prioritizing goals, which then ought to drive the selection of metrics. On the other hand, the dynamic nature of the organizations requires measurement programs to adapt to the changes in the stakeholders, their goals, information needs and priorities. Therefore, it is crucial for organizations to use structured approaches that provide transparency, traceability and guidance in choosing an optimum set of metrics that would address the highest priority information needs considering limited resources. This paper proposes a decision support framework for metrics selection (DSFMS) which is built upon the widely used Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach. The core of the framework includes an iterative goal-based metrics selection process incorporating decision making mechanisms in metrics selection, a pre-defined Attributes/Metrics Repository, and a Traceability Model among GQM elements. We also discuss alternative prioritization and optimization techniques for organizations to tailor the framework according to their needs. The evaluation of the GQM-DSFMS framework was done through a case study in a CMMI Level 3 software company.