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.... a means to identify what to measure [10] Second, Lott evaluates the ability of process centered software engineering environments to support measurement [15] Third, Lott and Rombach present an approach for integrating data collection of measurement programs into explicit software process models [17]. Their integration aims at guiding developers through the course of software development by using the measurement data as objective quality criteria. Fourth, Pfleeger and McGowan propose using SADT descriptions of software processes to identify process problems and to suggest feasible metrics ....

C. M. Lott and H. D. Rombach. Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans. Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):407--419, June/July 1993.

.... have been defined for allowing the characterization and incremental improvement of software processes (e.g. Paulk et al., 1991, and Basili, 1989] As a necessary component of these approaches, techniques have been developed for modeling software development and maintenance processes [Lott and Rombach, 1993, Finkelstein et al., 1994, and Melo and Belkhatir, 1994] During this work the authors were, in part, supported by the following grants: Briand by NSF grant 01 5 24845, Melo by UMIACS, Carolyn by IBM Toronto 91 1 20011, and Basili by NASA grant NSG 5123. 2 What has received less attention in ....

Lott, C.M.; Rombach, H.D. (1993). "Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans".

....to the assessment. Thus, we were faced with the crucial task of finding an appropriate organizational modeling approach. We first looked in the process literature for such a technology. Representation of organizational structure in most process work is limited to the representation of roles [BK94, LR93], with a few notable exceptions. One is the approach presented in [K91] which uses Statemate. Statemate models include three perspectives, one of which is the organizational perspective, which identifies the people who participate in the process and the information channels between them. Role ....

C.M. Lott and H.D. Rombach, "Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans", Information and Software Technology, 35:6/7, June, 1993, pp. 407419.

....include the relevant activities. Each interaction definition describes a piece of information that must pass from one agent to another in order for some part of the development process to execute. Activities, agents, and interactions correspond to objects that appear in most process models (see [4], for example) Specifically, they are mapped to tasks, roles, and artifacts or products, respectively. 3 Organization and Process Attributes Our work thus far has focused on two broad categories of attributes which characterize the relationship between an organizational structure and a process. ....

Christopher M. Lott and H. Dieter Rombach, "Measurement-based Guidance of Software Projects Using Explicit Project Plans", Information and Software Technology, Vol. 35, No. 6, June 1993, pp. 407419.

....been defined for allowing the characterization and incremental improvement of software processes [Basili, 1989; Lanphar, 1990] The modeling of software development and maintenance processes is a necessary component of these approaches. A number of modeling techniques have been developed, e.g. [Lott and Rombach, 1993; Finkelstein et al., 1994; Melo and Belkhatir, 1994] What has received less attention in the literature is the need to model the organizational context in which a development process executes. It is not possible to fully understand and analyze such process issues as information flow, division of ....

Lott, C.M.; Rombach, H.D. (1993). "Measurement-based Guidance of Software Projects Using Explicit Project Plans". Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):40719, June/July.

....We have implemented MVP S, a process sensitive software engineering environment (SEE) that supports our integrated approach for enacting project plans using role definitions and measurement data. This system is the first prototype of our ideas for integrating process modeling and measurement [25]. We give a detailed example of enacting a project plan using role definitions and measurement data to illustrate the advantages of our integrated approach. The reader will gain an appreciation of some issues surrounding data collection in the software engineering domain and an understanding of ....

....for all activities involving these roles, but concentrates on collecting data from and offering guidance to the personnel who play the technical roles. 4.1.3 Integration of Measurement. Measurement and modeling are complementary approaches which enjoy a synergy effect when applied together [25]. We use the G Q M Paradigm for defining measurement plans [3, 2] and the formalism MVP L for writing project plans. The integration of measurement into project plans means defining the 2 Includes designers, programmers, testers, quality assurance engineers, maintainers, etc. An alternate term ....

Christopher M. Lott and H. Dieter Rombach. Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans. Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):407--419, June/July 1993.

....observations is a maturation effect that might result from a subject learning from the first exercise. Different exercises were used to mitigate such maturation effects. 4.1. 4 Use of quantitative quality models Quantitative quality models are a basic part of measurement based process guidance [Lott and Rombach, 1993]. All subjects received quantitative quality models, regardless of the guidance technique used. This was intended to approximate the situation in which an organization maintains a database about prior test efforts. For example, a quality model about a test process could predict the number of ....

Lott, C. M. and Rombach, H. D. (1993). Measurementbased guidance of software projects using explicit project plans. Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):407--419.

....people will clearly understand what will be measured, and the responsibility for data collection can be assigned appropriately. Further, by integrating the data collection with the process model, measurement based feedback and guidance can be offered to the people who perform the processes [7, 33, 23]. A goal directed approach towards deciding what to measure and how to interpret the results of measurement is embodied in the Goal Question Metric (G Q M) paradigm [4, 3] Building a data collection plan by using a goal directed method such as G Q M is not a guarantee for success (see also [6, 2, ....

Christopher M. Lott and H. Dieter Rombach. Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans. Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):407--419, June/July 1993.

.... the data, and providing feedback to a project demands a goal oriented approach towards measurement and a formal integration of project plans, quality models, and metrics [1, 2] Our ultimate goal is providing project guidance by interpreting empirical data according to established quality models [6]. Empirical data drives two improvement cycles, namely the intra project cycle to improve the processes Supported by ESPRIT Project Nr. 9090 Process enhancement for reduction of software defects. y Supported by ESSI Project Nr. 10358 Customized establishment of measurement programs. z ....

Christopher M. Lott and H. Dieter Rombach. Measurement-based guidance of software projects using explicit project plans. Information and Software Technology, 35(6/7):407--419, June/July 1993.

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