Framework for a Service-oriented Measurement Infrastructure

One on the major success factors for the applicability of software measurement is the overcoming of manual activities in software measurement. Therefore tools are used to automate as much activities as possible. The dedicated task for this thesis is to investigate the lack of measurement maturity and measurement tool distribution. The main research question that is investigated by the thesis is therefore: How should an infrastructure for software measurement be arranged, to implement the software measurement process of an organization? To address the primary research question the following questions are also investigated which simultaneously represent the scope of the thesis: 1. What are the special challenges for the implementation of software measurement programs? 2. Which basic software measurement approaches are significant for the software engineering discipline? 3. Which software measurement process should be realized by a measurement infrastructure? 4. What measurement process level can be observed in existing solutions? 5. Which elements should be part of a measurement infrastructure and how should an example be implemented? 6. How can quality requirements alongside with functional requirements quality requirements be achieved?