Managing the software process
Software Metrics: A Practitioner's Guide to Improved Product Development
Software Metrics: A Practitioner's Guide to Improved Product Development
A predictive metric based on discriminant statistical analysis
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Total software process model evolution in EPOS: experience report
ICSE '97 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Software engineering
Using personality inventories to help form teams for software engineering class projects
Proceedings of the 6th annual conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education
IT measurement
A quantitative and qualitative analysis of factors affecting software processes
Journal of Systems and Software
Effective test metrics for test strategy evolution
CASCON '04 Proceedings of the 2004 conference of the Centre for Advanced Studies on Collaborative research
A maturity model for the implementation of software process improvement: an empirical study
Journal of Systems and Software - Special issue: The new context for software engineering education and training
Improving the reliability of medical software by predicting the dangerous software modules
Journal of Medical Systems - Special issue: Computer-based medical systems
Predicting acceptance of Software Process Improvement
HSSE '05 Proceedings of the 2005 workshop on Human and social factors of software engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Using personality inventories to form teams for class projects: a case study
Proceedings of the 7th conference on Information technology education
Why do programmers avoid metrics?
Proceedings of the Second ACM-IEEE international symposium on Empirical software engineering and measurement
Information and Software Technology
Investigating the relationship between schedules and knowledge transfer in software testing
Information and Software Technology
Journal of Systems and Software
A test improvement model for embedded software testing
SEA '07 Proceedings of the 11th IASTED International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications
Gauging acceptance of software metrics: Comparing perspectives of managers and developers
ESEM '09 Proceedings of the 2009 3rd International Symposium on Empirical Software Engineering and Measurement
Organisational readiness and software process improvement
PROFES'07 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
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Describes an ongoing research project conducted jointly by Siemens and the Software Engineering Institute. Siemens software-development organizations in Germany and the United States are case-study sites at which we measure the effect of methods to improve the software-development process. To observe and quantify the impact of software-process improvement, we must measure the performance of a software-development organization over time. Comparison of performance across organizations is very difficult, since organizations define measures and collect performance data in different ways. However, we can separately track performance improvement in each organization if it defines measures consistently and develops similar products. We have defined basic measures for performance of a software-development organization. We limited ourselves to a small number of simple measures to reduce the complexity of collecting, analyzing, and maintaining the performance data. Improving the software-development process improves the quality of software products and the overall performance of the software-development organization. However, process is only one of several controllable factors in improving software quality and organization performance. Others include the skills and experience of the people developing the software, the technology used (e.g. CASE tools), product complexity, and environmental characteristics such as schedule pressure and communications.