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It is important that estimates related to cost, size, effort, time and quality of the projects and/or products of a software organization be feasible, and that organization’s commitments towards those estimates may be properly monitored. Implementing a measurement and analysis program in a software organization helps to support these activities. However, the institutionalization of this program requires construct a measurement repository to store measurement data.
This paper presents the requirements for the construction of an organizational measurement repository based on the CMMI and MPS.BR maturity models, and proposes an approach for the construction of this repository satisfying those requirements. As an example of use, an organizational measurement repository based on the approach has been defined to a software organization.
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Alcântara Araújo, S., Bessa Albuquerque, A., Dias Belchior, A., Chagas Mendonça, N. (2010). An Experience of Use of an Approach to Construct Measurement Repositories in Software Organizations. In: Sobh, T. (eds) Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3658-2_60
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