Software measurement body of knowledge - overview of empirical support
Luigi Buglione, Alain Abran · 2005
The “Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge – SWEBOK” (2004 version) – contains ten distinct Knowledge Areas (KAs) and three common themes: Quality, Tools and Measurement. Since measurement is present in all the KAs, an initial taxonomy for measurement had been proposed as a foundation for the addition of a new specific KA on Software Measurement. To verify the feasibility of such a proposal, this paper presents an overview of the level of empirical support for each measurement topic identified. The types of empirical support adopted are from the Zelkowitz & Wallace taxonomy.