An empirical investigation into industrial use of software metrics programs |
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Author: | Ram, Prabhat1; Rodríguez, Pilar2; Oivo, Markku1; |
Organizations: |
1M3S, Faculty of ITEE, University of Oulu, Oulu 90014, Finland 2Faculty of Computer Sciences, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain 3Softeam, 75016 Paris, France
4ITTI Sp. z o.o, Poznań and UTP, Bydgoszcz, Poland
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Format: | article |
Version: | accepted version |
Access: | open |
Online Access: | PDF Full Text (PDF, 0.7 MB) |
Persistent link: | http://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi-fe202101051091 |
Language: | English |
Published: |
Springer Nature,
2020
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Publish Date: | 2021-01-05 |
Description: |
AbstractPractitioners adopt software metrics programs to support their software development from the perspective of either overall quality, performance, or both. Current literature details and justifies the role of a metrics program in a software organization’s software development, but empirical evidence to demonstrate its actual use and concomitant benefits remains scarce. In the context of an EU H2020 Project, we conducted a multiple case study to investigate how two software-intensive Agile companies utilized a metrics program in their software development. We invited practitioners from the two case companies to report on the actual use of the metrics program, the underlying rationale, and any benefits they may have witnessed. We also collected and analyzed metrics data from multiple use cases to explain the reported use of the metrics. The analysis revealed improvements like better code review practices and formalization of quality requirements management, either as a direct consequence or as a byproduct of the use of the metrics. The contrasting contexts like company size, project characteristics, and general perspective towards metrics programs could explain why one company viewed the metrics as a trigger for their reported improvements, while the other company saw metrics as the main driver for their improvements. Empirical evidence from our study should help practitioners adopt a more favorable view towards metrics programs, who were otherwise reluctant due to lack of evidence of their utility and benefits in industrial context. see all
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Series: |
Lecture notes in computer science |
ISSN: | 0302-9743 |
ISSN-E: | 1611-3349 |
ISSN-L: | 0302-9743 |
ISBN: | 978-3-030-64148-1 |
ISBN Print: | 978-3-030-64147-4 |
Pages: | 419 - 433 |
DOI: | 10.1007/978-3-030-64148-1_26 |
OADOI: | https://oadoi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64148-1_26 |
Host publication: |
Product-Focused Software Process Improvement : 21st International Conference, PROFES 2020, Turin, Italy, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings |
Host publication editor: |
Morisio, Maurizio Torchiano, Marco Jedlitschka, Andreas |
Conference: |
International Conference on Product-Focused Software Process Improvement |
Type of Publication: |
A4 Article in conference proceedings |
Field of Science: |
113 Computer and information sciences |
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Funding: |
This work is a result of the Q-Rapids Project, funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program, under grant agreement No. 732253. |
EU Grant Number: |
(732253) Q-RAPIDS - Quality-Aware Rapid Software Development |
Copyright information: |
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Product-Focused Software Process Improvement : 21st International Conference, PROFES 2020, Turin, Italy, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-64148-1_26. |