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Software project management has emerged as a new discipline with wide-ranging ideas and across-the-board insights for effectively managing key areas of software projects. The remarkable work of the software project managers, professionals and researchers across the globe have resulted in substantial improvements in this field. Likewise, software project failure rate has decreased considerably due to the use of effective software project management tools and techniques by the software houses. Now more efficient, robust and quantitative measures are being practiced in the areas of software requirement gathering, analysis, design, architecture, development, quality assurance, integration, deployment and support. A number of metrics are used by the requirement engineers, system analysts, software engineers, team leads, software project managers and other professionals to successfully manage, execute and complete the software projects. As the software industry moves towards a more mature state, the need for employing more effective tools, techniques and benchmarks for managing software projects has become indispensable to minimize the negative risk factors and improved adherence to quality assurance. Particularly, requirement metrics are useful in identifying risks of a project by locating errors in the requirements document. These metrics validate the gathered requirements against the actual requirements by evaluating whether the requirements are complete or not. A range of metrics are used for measuring the requirements e.g., volatility metrics check changes in the requirements, traceability evaluates links among the requirements within a document and requirements completeness metrics verifies whether the specified requirements are complete or not. Multiple metrics are recommended to be used to assess the health of a software project to ensure overall quality as a single metric cannot suffice. In this paper, we explore how different metrics relating to different areas of software project, especially in requirement engineering, can be useful to manage the software projects for knowledgeably. The focus of this research study is to evaluate and highlight the importance of various performance metrics and propose additional metrics for requirement gathering and management.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
  1.1. Defining Metrics
  1.2. Metrics to Manage Efforts
  1.3. Productivity Metrics
  1.4. Quality Metrics
  1.5. Effective Measurement
  1.6. Organization of this Paper
 2. Background and Literature Survey
 3. Software Requirement Engineering and Process Model
 4. Proposed Requirement Metrics Anthology
 5. Effect of Metrics on Requirement Engineering Process
 6. Conclusion
 References

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저자

• Shahid Iqbal [ Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad, Pakistan ]
• M. Naeem Ahmed Khan [ Shaheed Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto Institute of Science and Technology (SZABIST) Islamabad, Pakistan ]

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간행물

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications

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  월간

• pISSN

  1738-9984

• 수록기간

  2008~2016

• 등재여부

  SCOPUS

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605