Greetings all,
I've recently finished the second draft of a paper I intend to submit to ICSE 2007
entitled "Requirement and Design Trade-offs in Hackystat: An in-process software
engineering measurement and analysis system". It's available for review at:
<http://csdl.ics.hawaii.edu/techreports/06-06/06-06.pdf>
I'd appreciate any and all comments on the paper, hopefully within the next week, since
the due date is early September.
Here's the abstract to whet your appetite:
For five years, the Hackystat Project has incrementally developed and evaluated a generic
framework for in-process software engineering measurement and analysis (ISEMA). At least
five other independent ISEMA system development projects have been initiated during this
time, indicating growing interest and investment in this approach by the software
engineering community. This paper presents 12 important requirement and design
trade-offs made in the Hackystat system, some of their implications for organizations
wishing to introduce ISEMA, and six directions for future research and development. The
three goals of this paper are to: (1) help potential users of ISEMA systems to better
evaluate the relative strengths and weaknesses of current and future systems, (2) help
potential developers of ISEMA systems to better understand some of the important
requirement and design trade-offs that they must make, and (3) help accelerate progress
in ISEMA by identifying promising directions for future research and development.
Cheers,
Philip
