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ADVANCED ASSESSMENT AND MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES
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Table 4.4. Example of effort for establishing continuous assessment
when starting from scratch
Activity
Total effort
BOOTSTRAP specific GQM plan:
±100 hours
Effort
Learning BOOTSTRAP:
20 hours
Learning GQM:
20 hours
Defining goals and questions:
10 hours
Defining metrics:
20 hours
Defining checklists:
30 hours
Constructing Continuous Assessment:
±30 hours
Investigate GQM plan:
5 hours
Comparing plans:
15 hours
Integration:
10 hours
Finding Indicators for Continuous Assessment
To establish a setting in which continuous assessments can be performed,
the existing measurement programme and the existing process improvement programme had to be integrated, as shown in Figure 4.5.
Company-specific
GQM measurement
programme
ISO15504/ BOOTSTRAP
reference model
GQM programme with integrated ISO15504/BOOTSTRAP
measurements for continuous assessment
Figure 4.5. Combining GQM with ISO15504/BOOTSTRAP to address
continuous assessment.
The integration towards continuous assessment was done in three steps.
Firstly, the system testing process as defined by BOOTSTRAP was