Measuring the Software Process: Statistical Process Control for Software Process Improvement

Index

Action(s)

“plans, preparing,” 38–40

to integrate measures, 35, 37–38

Aggregation and decomposition

of process performance data, 150–151

Analysis

basic description of process, 36, 65–84

of existing measurement activities, 35–36

of process behavior, 65, 221–231

portion of improving processes, 191

process capability, 179–186

Analytic studies, 67, 212–213, 221, 223–227

Analytic tools, 54–64

Anomalous process behavior patterns

assignable causes and, 162–163

basic description of, 131–136

Archiving

process performance data, 53

Arithmetic operations

data assessment, 49

Assignable cause(s)

anomalous patterns and, 163

approaches to determining, 163–175

bunching (grouping), 135

cycles, 132

detection tests, 80

finding and correcting, 155, 157

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