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

Requirements and AI April 16, 2025
The last few months took a lot of my energy to transit from administrative duties to more research oriented ones. Although I like blogging a lot, there was simply no time left for that. Well, I did write and there will be a new book coming out soon, so here is a preview of what […]
Miroslaw Staron
New kids on the block, or are they? March 18, 2025
A bit of a different blog post today. I’ve just finished a course that I teach to 2nd year undergraduate students – embedded and real-time software systems. I love to see how my students grow from not knowing anything about C to programming embedded systems with interrupts, serial communication between two Arduinos and using preprocessor […]
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Agents, agents, better agents… January 22, 2025
Image by Aberrant Realities from Pixabay Introducing smolagents: simple agents that write actions in code. In the work with generative AI, there is a constant temptation to let the AI take over and do most of the jobs. There are even ways to do that in software engineering, for example by linking the code generation […]
Miroslaw Staron
AI, AI and one more time AI January 15, 2025
AI has transformed the way we develop software and create new products. It is here to stay and it will just grow bigger. This year, one of the important events is CES where the Nvidia’s CEO shows the latest developments. Well, no surprise that generative AI is the key. Generating frames, worlds, programs, dialogs, agents, […]
Miroslaw Staron
Let’s make 2025 an Action Research year! January 8, 2025
Image by Haeruman from Pixabay Guidelines for Conducting Action Research Studies in Software Engineering Happy 2025! Let’s make it a great year full of fantastic research results and great products. How to achieve that goal? Well, let’s take a look at this paper about guidelines for conducting action research. These guidelines are based on my experiences with working […]
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