Software Measurement Practice Survey Completed

The SEI's Software Engineering Measurement and Analysis (SEMA) Initiative has completed its first survey to gauge the state of the practice in software measurement.

The objectives of the survey were to characterize:

• The degree to which software practitioners use measurement when conducting their work.
• The perceived value of measurement.
• Approaches that are used to guide how measures are defined and used.
• The most common types of measures used by software practitioners

The results of the survey provide an indication of the measurement implementation approaches being used by the community. They also point to behaviors that are promoting or preventing the effective use of measurement.

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