Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses

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March/April 2007 (vol. 24 no. 2) pp. 73-78

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	Barbara Kitchenham, David Ross Jeffery, Colin Connaughton, "Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 73-78, March/April, 2007.

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	@article{ 10.1109/MS.2007.49, author = {Barbara Kitchenham and David Ross Jeffery and Colin Connaughton}, title = {Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses}, journal ={IEEE Software}, volume = {24}, number = {2}, issn = {0740-7459}, year = {2007}, pages = {73-78}, doi = {http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MS.2007.49}, publisher = {IEEE Computer Society}, address = {Los Alamitos, CA, USA}, }

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	TY - MGZN JO - IEEE Software TI - Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses IS - 2 SN - 0740-7459 SP73 EP78 EPD - 73-78 A1 - Barbara Kitchenham, A1 - David Ross Jeffery, A1 - Colin Connaughton, PY - 2007 KW - productivity metrics KW - effort estimation KW - statistical process control KW - ISO/IEC 15939 VL - 24 JA - IEEE Software ER -

Barbara Kitchenham, National ICT Australia

David Ross Jeffery, National ICT Australia

Colin Connaughton, IBM Australia

The authors demonstrate that the recommendations for analyzing productivity in the appendix to the ISO/IEC 15939 standard are inappropriate. They also show that problems with the ISO/IEC advice can be compounded if software engineers attempt to apply statistical process-control techniques to software productivity metrics. They recommend using small meaningful data sets as the basis for productivity analysis and using effort-estimation models to assess productivity rather than productivity metrics.This article is part of a special focus section on software metrics.

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productivity metrics, effort estimation, statistical process control, ISO/IEC 15939

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Barbara Kitchenham, David Ross Jeffery, Colin Connaughton, "Misleading Metrics and Unsound Analyses," IEEE Software, vol. 24, no. 2, pp. 73-78, Mar./Apr. 2007, doi:10.1109/MS.2007.49

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