Four of five software metrics programs fail [Pitt97]. On the other side many software projects fail because of budget or time overruns [Glas02]. From the technical point of view metrics can be applied to every system to get insights about the quality of large software systems. There exist many metrics, metric sets and metrics tools (cf. e.g. [Simo01]). Additionally there exist many studies on p...

Supporting Goal-Oriented Requirement Engineering (GORE) in a systematic and comprehensive way may require the combination of distinct goal-oriented approaches. However, due to lack of common semantics, to combine these approaches can be challenging. In this work, we propose a semantic alignment between two complementary goal-oriented approaches: the ArchiMate Motivation Extension and the Goal-Q...

The paper describes a method, which we used to evaluate the expected quality of software that was developed for a huge governmental system. The evaluation was done on behalf of the customer, lasted nearly two years and was performed along with the software development process. The output that was expected by our customer consisted of a quality assessment accompanied by a set of recommendations ...

Process assessment and process improvement are both very difficult tasks since we are either assessing or improving a concept rather than an object. A quality process is expected to produce quality products efficiently. Most of the existing models such as CMM, ISO 9001/9000-3 etc. intend to enhance the maturity or the quality of an organization with the assumption that a matured organization wi...

Web-site content can be characterised in terms of size, element complexity, coherence and exceptions. Appropriate measures can be defined for all the common types of digital asset. These measures are available for use throughout the lifecycle. A measurement plan for projects can be derived from a variant of GQM, the information that can meaningfully be provided by different activities, and the ...

The benefits of reusing artifacts in the software development process are well-known in the software engineering community, and the earlier in the system development life-cycle reuse is attempted, the more benefit can be expected. Thus, we highlight the reuse of requirement specifications, leading to greater reuse of other artifacts such as models, code and tests. This paper presents an approac...

This paper compares two quantitative approaches recommended for developing and supporting software process improvements, that is, the Goal-Question-Metric (GQM) technique and the Balanced Scorecard (BSc) framework. While both offer the opportunity to implement a quantitative analysis of software projects, they are often misinterpreted as either interchangeable or, on the contrary, mutually excl...

Many businesses strive to align their business goals, strategies, and systems before during system development as the studies of GORE alignment business/IT show. However, level success derived from interrelationships may be ambiguous because relationships between are often vague. As agile becomes more prevalent, it is becoming difficult adjust a accommodate changing goals strategies. By linking...

Software organizations are always looking for approaches that help improve the quality and productivity of developed software products. Quality software is easy to maintain and reduces the cost of software development. The Software Factories (SF) approach is one of the approaches to provide such benefits. In this paper, the quality and productivity benefits of the SF approach were examined and ...