Squirrel: an architecture for the systematic collection of software development data in microenterprises to support lean software development

Abstract

Microenterprises (companies with less than 10 employees) are the dominating form of organizations in Europe. Unfortunately, many approaches to improve software development processes based on measurement are not tailored for such small companies. This poster proposes a measurement infrastructure that is developed with the goal to support microenterprises in measuring their process, product, and usage of the developed software to provide feedback to the entire development team. What the here presented tool wants to propose is to automate not only the data collection, but to be consequent in the rest of the feedback loop: to setup the interpretation and visualization of the data that, once this is done, no more intervention is needed.