Foundations of software measurement
Foundations of software measurement
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
Making Software Measurement Work: Building an Effective Measurement Program
Making Software Measurement Work: Building an Effective Measurement Program
Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques
Requirements Engineering: Processes and Techniques
MANAGER: Eight Secrets of Software Measurement
IEEE Software
METRICS '01 Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on Software Metrics
How Does a Measurement Programme Evolve in Software Organizations?
PROFES '08 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement
Usability metric for mobile application: a goal question metric (GQM) approach
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Journal of Systems and Software
Software Product Quality: Ensuring a Common Goal
ICSP '09 Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Process: Trustworthy Software Development Processes
A usability evaluation of AlgoSketch: a pen-based application for mathematics
Proceedings of the 6th Eurographics Symposium on Sketch-Based Interfaces and Modeling
Defining a catalog of indicators to support process performance analysis
Journal of Software Maintenance and Evolution: Research and Practice
WDMES: a comprehensive measurement system for web application development
Proceedings of the 6th Euro American Conference on Telematics and Information Systems
Equality in cumulative voting: A systematic review with an improvement proposal
Information and Software Technology
A decision support framework for metrics selection in goal-based measurement programs: GQM-DSFMS
Journal of Systems and Software
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In software engineering, measurements can be used to monitor, understand and improve software processes as well as products and resource utilization. Commonly, measurement frameworks are ambitious undertakings that require large data collection and analysis efforts. Unfortunately, such frameworks usually become too extensive, resulting in graveyards with a lot of data never being analyzed and used. One well-known way for defining measurements that tries to focus on the most important ones is the Goal Question Metric (GQM) approach. GQM focuses on eliciting goals and questions as drivers for finding metrics necessary to collect. This means that there is always a purpose with the defined measurements. GQM solves part of the problem mentioned, but it is still possible that the measurements defined become too many. In this paper, an extended GQM approach is presented that facilitates identification of and focuses on the most important measurements for an organization. The approach makes it possible to be more efficient when it comes to the application of measurement frameworks. Besides the presentation of the approach, two case studies are presented where the suitability of the approach is investigated in an industrial context. In the case studies, the suggested approach has been applied on two different processes within software development: change management and requirements engineering. From these case studies, a number of experiences are highlighted and discussed as issues to consider when applying the approach.