Supporting software process measurement by using metamodels - A DSL and a framework

At present the objective of obtaining quality software products has led to the necessity of carrying out good software processes management in which measurement is a fundamental factor. Due to the great diversity of entities involved in software measurement, a consistent framework is necessary to integrate the different entities in the measurement process. In this work a Software Measurement Framework (SMF) is presented to measure any type of software entity. In this framework, any software entity in any domain could be measured with a common Software Measurement metamodel and QVT transformations. Besides, we present a Software Measurement Modelling Language (SMML) in order to define the measurement models with take part in the measurement process. Furthermore an example which illustrates the framework's application to a concrete domain is furthermore shown.