The main objective of the Web of Data paradigm is to crystallize knowledge through the interlinking of already existing but dispersed data. The usefulness of the developed knowledge depends strongly on the quality of the published data. Researchers have observed many deficiencies with regard to the quality of Linked Open Data. The first step towards improving the quality of data released as a p...

Metrics-programmes give powerful support to quality improvement of both software products and development processes. A well-known and popular software measurement approach is the Goal/Question/Metric method (GQM). This article presents a research road-map intended to enhance GQM. The main motive behind that presentation is that GQM will probably become the de-facto standard for software measure...

Measurement is a necessary prerequisite for software process improvement. However, few guidelines exist for systematic planning of measurement programs within software projects. We advocate beginning with goal-oriented measurement as expressed in the GQM paradigm. When applying GQM, meaningful refinement of measurement goals requires a deep understanding of the organization’s software developme...

Many success stories have been reported on specific effects of measurement. But little is known about the multiple interactions of measurement programmes with the business environment of a software organisation. This paper summarises industrial experiences with the Goal/Question/Metric (GQM) approach to software engineering measurement. They are based on long-term observation and additional det...

Software measurement plays a key role in quantitative software engineering. Effective implementation of a measurement system to map collected data to business goals in a software organization is a prime problem. Goal-Question-Metrics (GQM) measurement provides the guidelines. A number of techniques to implement the GQM process have already been proposed. Nevertheless, the GQM process is complex...

Global software development has a big impact on current software engineering practices. Current quality frameworks and improvement strategies need to be adapted for distributed software engineering environments. GQM is an approach to measurement that can be used within the context of a more general strategy to software quality improvement. We present a variant of GQM, called D-GQM (DistributedG...

The purpose of this paper is to provide software measurements for implementation of the goals of the Requirements Management Key Process Area (KPA) of the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), and to ease the adoption of the KPA. The paper also provides practical guidance for people trying to implement the Requirements Management KPA. The CMM, developed by the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) is...

GQM+Strategies is an approach that aligns the business goals at each level of an organization to strategies to achieve overall business goals and assesses the achievement of such goals. Strategies are extracted from business goals based on rationales (contexts and assumptions). Using the proposed approach, which refines the GQM+Strategies model by extracting rationales based on the analysis of ...

The increasing role of software for developing products and services requires that organizations align their software-related activities with high-level business goals. In practice, this alignment is very difficult and only little systematic support is available. GQM+Strategies is a method that aims at aligning organizational goals, strategies, and measurements at all levels of an organization ...