Tools Integration for Supporting Software Measurement: A Systematic Literature Review

Abstract

Software measurement (SM) is a key area to support process quality improvement and project management. Due to the nature of the measurement activities, tool support is essential. Tools can be combined to support the SM process and provide necessary information for decision making. However, tools are usually developed without concern for integration. As a result, organizations have to deal with integration issues to enable communication between tools. Aiming at investigating studies in the literature that report initiatives involving tool integration for supporting SM, we performed a systematic literature review. Twelve initiatives were found. This paper presents the results of the systematic review and discusses the main findings.

Integrating Tools to Support Software Measurement

“…In the literature, there are some tool integration initiatives that support software measurement. We carried out a systematic investigation and identified 12 integration initiatives involving tools integration to support software measurement (see [Fonseca et al 2015a[Fonseca et al , 2015b). Most of the investigated initiatives integrates code-related tools.…”