International Metrics Database Opportunities & Future Directions

There is currently a lack of data available in the public domain for international benchmarking in relation to the productivity and quality of software development and maintenance products and processes. With the emergence of new international standards for software measurement, there is currently an opportunity to develop international software benchmarking repositories in which content quality would be controlled by independent organizations. Such types of repositories would allow transparency of the data collected, as well as consistency to the data registration procedures and adherence to international standards. Availability of benchmarking data in the public domain would also facilitate both industry comparisons, benchmarking at the organizational level as well as research access to robust industrial datasets. This Workshop aims to identify the current opportunities in terms of emerging standards, emerging international software benchmarking organizations in the public domain as well as related opportunities. It is hoped on the one hand that the existing components will be reviewed, improved and promoted, and on the other that missing components will be identified, clarified and specified.