OO software process improvement with metrics

Abstract

Good software engineering requires a process and a means by which to measure both the success of this process and the quality of the product. Software engineering metrics are thus a vital component to all software development organizations aspiring to high quality. In this paper, an integrated (management and technical) viewpoint is taken in which product and process metrics are examined in the context of a third-generation, full-lifecycle object-oriented (OO) process.