SUPPORTING SOFTWARE PROCESS MEASUREMENT BY USING METAMODELS - A DSL and a Framework

Beatriz Mora, Felix Garcia, Francisco Ruiz, Mario Piattini

2008

Abstract

At present the objective of obtaining quality software products has led to the necessity of carrying out good software processes management in which measurement is a fundamental factor. Due to the great diversity of entities involved in software measurement, a consistent framework is necessary to integrate the different entities in the measurement process. In this work a Software Measurement Framework (SMF) is presented to measure any type of software entity. In this framework, any software entity in any domain could be measured with a common Software Measurement metamodel and QVT transformations. Besides, we present a Software Measurement Modelling Language (SMML) in order to define the measurement models with take part in the measurement process. Furthermore an example which illustrates the framework’s application to a concrete domain is furthermore shown.

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Mora B., Garcia F., Ruiz F. and Piattini M. (2008). SUPPORTING SOFTWARE PROCESS MEASUREMENT BY USING METAMODELS - A DSL and a Framework . In Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: MUSE, (ICSOFT 2008) ISBN 978-989-8111-52-4, pages 305-312. DOI: 10.5220/0001897003050312


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@conference{muse08,
author={Beatriz Mora and Felix Garcia and Francisco Ruiz and Mario Piattini},
title={SUPPORTING SOFTWARE PROCESS MEASUREMENT BY USING METAMODELS - A DSL and a Framework},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: MUSE, (ICSOFT 2008)},
year={2008},
pages={305-312},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001897003050312},
isbn={978-989-8111-52-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: MUSE, (ICSOFT 2008)
TI - SUPPORTING SOFTWARE PROCESS MEASUREMENT BY USING METAMODELS - A DSL and a Framework
SN - 978-989-8111-52-4
AU - Mora B.
AU - Garcia F.
AU - Ruiz F.
AU - Piattini M.
PY - 2008
SP - 305
EP - 312
DO - 10.5220/0001897003050312