Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
Keele University
Article title
What's up with software metrics? - A preliminary mapping study
Type
D - Journal article
Title of journal
JOURNAL OF SYSTEMS AND SOFTWARE
Article number
-
Volume number
83
Issue number
1
First page of article
37
ISSN of journal
0164-1212
Year of publication
2010
Number of additional authors
0
Additional information
<31> This study suggested that current metrics research was often neither useful nor effective. There is a large body of metrics related literature but many metrics papers were never cited (not even by their authors). It criticised the research methodology used to validate metrics pointing out that one specific set of metrics had been subject to a large number of validation studies over a period of 16 years suggesting considerable wasted research effort. Knowing when to stop evaluating a specific set of metrics can help researchers focus on more useful research.
Interdisciplinary
-
Cross-referral requested
-
Research group
A - Software Engineering
Citation count
20
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
-
Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
-
