> Hi all,
>
> I've received a rather vague request from the managers of a
> ClearCase environment I provide support for, to "provide metrics" for this
> environment. I have very little experience with metrics, however, and my
> customer hasn't been very forthcoming about exactly what their
> requirements are, so this is making it a bit hard to show them metrics.
> What they've asked for is for me to come up with some suggestions as to
> what might be useful metrics to track. So, this all leads up to my
> question:
>
> What "common" metrics do you folks track? I've gotten some
> suggestions already, namely:
>
> Number of builds, broken down by # of successes, # of failures; #
> of failures broken down by "cause of failure":
> 1. Development error - e.g., code change broke the build,
> developers didn't check in all required code, etc.
> 2. Systems error - e.g., build server crashed during build,
> network died, etc.
> 3. Scm error - e.g., release engineer didn't start the
> build on time; build scripts failed; scm system crashed or hung in some
> way, etc.
>
> Various ClearCase-specific numbers, e.g., # of branches, # of
> elements, # of views, # of VOBs, etc etc.
>
> Changes between builds -- # of files changed, # of source lines
> changed / deleted / added, etc.
>
> Can anybody offer any other suggestions about what kinds of metrics
> you would care to collect (and would find useful)? Specifically, this is
> a ClearCase 3.2.1 environment running on Solaris servers, with multiple
> repositories on containing source in C, C++, perl, and various shell
> scripting languages.
>
> Also, can anybody offer suggestions on good reference materials for
> software metrics? (Title at least, preferably with author?)
>
> Any suggestions you folks can offer would be greatly appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Kevin Pease
>
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> Kevin B. Pease FISC - SCME
> Fidelity Investments Systems Company
> kevin.pease@fmr.com (617) 392-9022
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