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Table 10 Measures, processes and goals – Category: PERFORMANCE

From: Investigating measures for applying statistical process control in software organizations

Measures

Publications

Processes

Goals

aRework efficiency (number of fixed defects / defect fixing effort)

P16,P18,P40

Fixing

G08.2;G05.1;G05.9

aInspection performance (size of inspected product/ effort spent on the inspection)

P11,P28

Review

bInspection productivity (number of detected defects in the inspection/ effort spent on the inspection)

P48

Review

aProductivity (effort/product size)

P03,P07,P16,P19,P20,P30,P31,P27

Maintenance, Requirements Analysis, Design, Coding, Testing

G01;G03;G09.1;G05.2;G08;G10

bDefect closure date variance (actual defect closure date – planned defect closure date)

P13

Review

G05.6

aReview performance (effort spent on the review /size of the reviewed product)

P07

Review

G10

aDefect resolution efficiency (number of solved defects /resolution effort)

P07,P17,P25

Review

G06;G10.2

aEffective preparation speed (product size/average time spent preparing for review + average time spent preparing for rereview)

P34

Review

G02

aEffective review speed (product size/ time spent on all reviews of the product)

P34

Review

G02

aPreparation speed (product size/average time spent preparing for review)

P34

Review

G02

aReview speed (product size/spent time on review)

P03,P24,P34

Review

G02;G04.3

aTest defect detection efficiency (number of defects in tests / effort spent reviewing tests)

P07,P17

Review

G13

aDefect detection efficiency (number of defects detected in the review/detection effort)

P07,P17,P25,P19

Review, Testing

G06;G10.2;G03

aSystem test speed (size of the tested product/time spent on system test)

P07

Testing

G10.5

aTest defect resolution efficiency (number of resolved defects / effort spent resolving the defects)

P07,P17

Testing

G13

aTest design productivity (number of test cases designed / test cases design effort)

P07,P09,P17

Testing

G12

aTest execution productivity (number of test cases executed/ effort spent on executing test cases)

P09

Testing

G12

aTest procedure preparation productivity (number of test cases/effort spent on test procedure preparation)

P09

Testing

aTest script productivity (number of test cases/effort spent developing test script)

P07,P17

Testing

G13

aUnit test speed (size of the tested product/time spent on unit test)

P07

Testing

G10