January 2018
Intermediate to advanced
624 pages
16h 17m
English
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Chapter 10 Measurement
After completing this chapter, you will be able to:
- – understand the importance of measurement;
- – understand the measurement process according to the ISO 12207 standard;
- – understand the Practical Software and Systems Measurement method;
- – understand the ISO/IEC/IEEE 15939 measurement standard;
- – understand the measurement perspective according to the CMMI® for Development;
- – understand the benefit of using surveys as a measurement tool;
- – understand how to implement a measurement program;
- – learn practical considerations for measurement;
- – understand the ISO/IEC 29110 measurement perspective;
- – learn the measurement requirements described in the IEEE 730 standard.
10.1 Introduction—the Importance of Measurement
Software measurement has been a research topic in software engineering for over 30 years [FEN 07]. Sadly, many measurement programs can hardly report the most basic software measurement such as: schedule, costs, size, and efforts. This means that little recent and factual information is available to project teams and their management [LAN 08].
We recall here the definition of software engineering. This definition puts emphasis on the importance of measuring software activities and products.
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