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 close future of software engineering February 5, 2026
https://www.arxiv.org/pdf/2601.10220 We’re witnessing a transformative shift in embedded software engineering as generative AI moves from a tool to an active participant in development pipelines. In our recent study, we explored how embedded software teams—especially in safety-critical and resource-constrained domains—are adapting to this change. Unlike conventional programming, embedded systems demand determinism, reliability, and traceability, attributes that […]
Miroslaw Staron
What happens if you give a compiler to an LLM… January 29, 2026
https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2601.12146 Large Language Models (LLMs) are now central to code generation, but they often produce non-compiling or incorrect programs. We investigate how giving an LLM direct access to a real compiler (gcc) transforms it from a passive code writer into an active programming agent. We conduct an extensive experiment on 699 real programming tasks in […]
Miroslaw Staron
New year, new book! January 22, 2026
Link to amazon During the entire 2025, I’ve had a chance to get into details with programming of agents, LLMs, and what have you. Thanks to the fact that my role as pro-dean ended, I’ve been given a lot of time to do it. My family has supported me a lot too. Without them, this […]
Miroslaw Staron
Quantum computing, or can we live on Mars? December 19, 2025
Once in a while I get to read a book that has nothing to do with my field. It’s mostly for enjoyment. Not many know that I was an astronomy freak when I was a kid. Somewhere in the middle of my primary school, I read books about red dwarfs, black holes, distant galaxies, and […]
Miroslaw Staron
The thinking machine, or machine that makes machines November 30, 2025
Artificial Intelligence, and in particular Generative AI, is probably the hottest technology in town. Everybody we know talks about it, everybody we know wants to use it, but almost no one gets it to work on the industrial scale. Well, that is true with a bit of modification. We have the OpenAIs and Anthropics of […]
Miroslaw Staron

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