Metrics

Vision

All Software Center companies have efficient product development, release and deployment processes.

Mission

We help the companies to design and develop modern measurement methods and tools by utilizing state-of-the-art analytics, AI and machine learning.

We use Action Research to increase the impact and adoption of the results (Action Research in Software Engineering), i.e., we work on-site of the companies.

Over the course of ten years of our collaboration, our theme has resulted in over 50 models and tools. We have also published over 200 papers and books that disseminate the results to the public domain.

Examples of the metrics designed and introduced to the companies:

Release readiness: measuring the number of weeks that the product development team needs to release the product (Agile): Release Readiness Indicator for Mature Agile and Lean Software Development Projects | SpringerLink
Change waves: measuring the impact of a change on software product: Identifying Implicit Architectural Dependencies Using Measures of Source Code Change Waves | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
Defect inflow: predicting the number of defects that the development team needs to handle in the coming weeks: Predicting weekly defect inflow in large software projects based on project planning and test status - ScienceDirect
Code quality: measuring and improving the impact of coding practices on software quality: Recognizing lines of code violating company-specific coding guidelines using machine learning | SpringerLink
Engineering level: measuring the quality of code in a git repository: PHANTOM: Curating GitHub for engineered software projects using time-series clustering (springer.com)
SimSAX project similarity: measuring the similarity of projects, for example to monitor the process evolution: LegacyPro—A DNA-Inspired Method for Identifying Process Legacies in Software Development Organizations | IEEE Journals & Magazine | IEEE Xplore, and Simsax: A measure of project similarity based on symbolic approximation method and software defect inflow - ScienceDirect
MeTEAM: measuring the maturity of software metric teams: MeTeaM—A method for characterizing mature software metrics teams - ScienceDirect
MESRAM: measuring the quality and quantity of measurement programs: MeSRAM – A method for assessing robustness of measurement programs in large software development organizations and its industrial evaluation - ScienceDirect

Projects

Continuous Product and Organizational Performance
Stakeholder Communication
Associated: MicroHRV
Associated: T4AI
Associated: Develop
Finished: Quasar@Car - Quantifying meta-model changes
Finished: VISEE - Verification and Validation of ISO 26262 requirements at the complete EE system level
Finished: Longitudinal Measurement of Agility and Group Development
Finished: Size and Quality between Software Development Approaches
Finished: RAWFP - Resource Aware Functional Programming

The road to an AI-first organization – what 40 embedded software engineers told us November 5, 2026
arxiv.org/pdf/2609.30863 Everybody talks about AI agents these days. Most of the discussion is about the tools: which model is better, which agent framework to pick, how many tokens it takes to fix a bug. Much less is said about the organization that has to absorb these agents. And in embedded software, where quality, traceability and […]
Miroslaw Staron
Incorruptible… October 29, 2026
Image by selline from Pixabay Amazon.com : incorruptible It’s been a while since I sat down at the keyboard and wanted to write. No, it’s not that I use AI for writing, but I’m in a bit of a creative crisis. I’ve read so many bad AI-written papers that I started to doubt whether this […]
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Software Engineering with Agents – there is a need for more humanity in SE and beyond August 10, 2026
Alternatively: do not trust the big tech on how good the AI is – humans are still needed to point it to the right direction Image by Michael Kauer from Pixabay My summer is getting dangerously close to its finish line, despite my strong protests. I’ve spent the summer working on non-software-engineering tasks, but before I went on […]
Miroslaw Staron
Summer 2026 – where are we going now? July 13, 2026
Image by Manueldesign20 from Pixabay It’s hard to believe that 2026 is already halfway and the summer is upon us. When I look back at what happens now, I still think that the best time to be a software engineer is now. We get so many cool tools to work with that we do not […]
Miroslaw Staron
Levels of automated code development… July 10, 2026
Image generated by Gemini based on this blow post https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/16/10/4788 The practical meaning of automated code generation is shifting rapidly. What was recently categorized as simple “autocomplete” has expanded into complex workflows involving multi-file modifications, test execution, and repository navigation. However, as Zhenhan Chen et al. argue in a recently published article in Applied Sciences, […]
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