Enabling Comprehensive Use of Metrics
PROFES '02 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Product Focused Software Process Improvement
Alitheia Core: An extensible software quality monitoring platform
ICSE '09 Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Software Engineering
Analytics for software development
Proceedings of the FSE/SDP workshop on Future of software engineering research
Information needs for software development analytics
Proceedings of the 34th International Conference on Software Engineering
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Continuous collection and analysis of measurement data is crucial in tracking and managing a software development process efficiently. However, practice has shown that setting up and carrying out a measurement programme requires a lot of effort. Despite their tight schedules project managers and project personnel perform measurement activities in addition to their main daily duties. Furthermore, measurement tasks may be perceived as secondary work for a software development project, which as such may harm the success of the measurement programme. Thus, all measurement activities that are reasonable to automate should be automated. In this paper we propose a measurement automation process that is based on the principles of goal-driven measurement. We give two industrial examples to demonstrate what measurement automation means in practice. We also discuss tool requirements and as an example, we present a measurement management tool enhanced by measurement automation.