Grupo Alarcos · Conference paper · 2003

Integrated measurement for the evaluation and improvement of software processes

Félix Óscar García Rubio, José Antonio Cruz Lemus, Mario Piattini Velthuis

EWSPT · 2003 · 15 citations (OpenAlex)

Software processes have an important influence on the quality of the final software product, and it has motivated companies to be more and more concerned about software process improvement when they are promoting the improvement of the final products. The management of software processes is a complex activity due to the great number of different aspects to be considered and, for this reason it is useful to establish a conceptual architecture which includes all the aspects necessary for the management of this complexity. In this paper we present a conceptual framework in which the software process modeling and measurement are treated in an integrated way for their improvement. As a support to the improvement a collection of software process model metrics is proposed. For the management of the measurement process, GenMETRIC, an extensible tool for the definition, calculation and presentation of software metrics, has been developed.