Measuring Best-in-Class Software Releases

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Measuring Best-in-Class Software Releases

Conference Paper (2013)

Author(s)

Hennie Huijgens (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Goverdson)

Rini van Solingen (TU Delft - Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, Prowareness )

Research Group

Software Engineering

Quality Scrum Software engineering Productivity Performance Measurement IT-metrics Time-to-Market

DOI related publication

https://doi.org/10.1109/IWSM-Mensura.2013.29 Final published version

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Publication Year

2013

Language

English

Research Group

Software Engineering

Pages (from-to)

137-146

ISBN (print)

978-0-7695-5078-7

Event

2013 Joint Conference of the 23rd International Workshop on Software Measurement and the 2013 Eighth International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (IWSM-MENSURA) (2013-10-23 - 2013-10-25), Ankara, Turkey

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Abstract

In this research we aimed to identify distinguishing factors in software releases. For this purpose we analyzed the metrics of 26 software projects. These projects were release-based deliveries from two stable, experienced development teams. During the measurement period both teams transformed from a plan-driven delivery model (waterfall) to an agile approach (Scrum). Overall, we observed that these small release-based projects differ largely from non-release-based projects. Our research indicates that a combination of release-based working, a fixed and experienced development team, and a steady heartbeat contribute to performances that can be characterized as best-practice. The main contribution of this paper is that we found five success factors (all reducing development complexity) that result in best-of-class performance for small software releases.