Print Email Facebook Twitter Towards a catalog format for software metrics Title Towards a catalog format for software metrics Author Bouwers, E. Visser, J. Van Deursen, A. Faculty Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science Department Software Technology Date 2014-04-30 Abstract In the past two decades both the industry and the research community have proposed hundreds of metrics to track software projects, evaluate quality or estimate effort. Unfortunately, it is not always clear which metric works best in a particular context. Even worse, for some metrics there is little evidence whether the metric measures the attribute it was designed to measure. In this paper we propose a catalog format for software metrics as a first step towards a consolidated overview of available software metrics. This format is designed to provide an overview of the status of a metric in a glance, while providing enough information to make an informed decision about the use of the metric. We envision this format to be implemented in a (semantic) wiki to ensure that relationships between metrics can be followed with ease. Preprint accepted for publication in the 5th International Workshop on Emerging Trends in Software Metrics (WETSoM 2014), Hyderabad (India), June 3, 2014 Subject documentationmeasurement To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:fcc21817-8d5c-484b-affb-f794346692b7 Publisher Delft University of Technology, Software Engineering Research Group ISSN 1872-5392 Source Technical Report Series TUD-SERG-2014-04 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type report Rights © 2014 The Author(s) . Software Engineering Research Group, Department of Software Technology, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Delft University of Technology Files PDF TUD-SERG-2014-004.pdf 223.57 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:fcc21817-8d5c-484b-affb-f794346692b7/datastream/OBJ/view