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Table 11 Measures, processes and goals – Category: EFFORT

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

Measures

Publications

Processes

Goals

aFixing effort percentage (effort spent on defect fixing activities/ project total effort * 100%)

P16

Fixing

G07

aDefect resolution effort ratio (effort spent on defect resolution/ number of solved defects)

P07

Fixing

G10.1

aInspection preparation rate (size of the product to be inspected/time spent to prepare the inspection)

P18,P21,P26,P37,P40

Review

G05.1;G04.3; G06.1

aEffort estimation accuracy (actual effort / estimated effort)

P07,P15,P44

Project Management

G09.1;G09.5; G10.3;G15

aTask effort estimation accuracy (actual task effort / estimated task effort)

P17

Project Management

G10.3

aTask effort variance (estimated task effort - actual - task effort)

P17

Project Management

G10.3

aPercentage of effort saved due to process automation (effort saved due to process automation/project effort *100)

P44

Project Management, Audit, Testing

G09.1

aReview effort per defect (effort spent on the review / number of defects detected in the review)

P09

Review

aTotal review effort (peer review effort + review effort)

P09

Review

G11

aPercentage of effort spent on system tests (effort spent at system tests activities/ total effort of project * 100%)

P16

Testing

G07

aRatio of test design review effort (test design review effort / test design effort)

P07,P09,P17

Testing

G12

aRatio of test development review effort (test development review effort/test development effort)

P09

Testing

G12

aRatio of test procedure preparation review effort (effort spent on review of test procedure preparation /effort spent on test procedure preparation)

P09

Testing

aSystem test effort estimation accuracy (system test actual effort/ system test estimated effort)

P07

Testing

G10.5

aTest script review effort (effort spent reviewing test scrips / effort spent developing the reviewed test scripts)

P07,P17

Testing

G13