Implementing Effective Software Metrics Programs

Authors:
Tracy Hall;Norman Fenton
Affiliations:
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Venue:
IEEE Software
Year:
1997

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Abstract

Increasingly, organizations are foregoing an ad hoc approach to metrics in favor of complete metrics programs. The authors identify consensus requirements for metric program success and examine how programs in two organizations measured up.