@ARTICLE{Sahraoui10-IST-ImpactMeasurementProgram,
   AUTHOR       = {Houari Sahraoui and Lionel C. Briand and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc and Olivier Beaurepaire},
   JOURNAL      = {Information and Software Technology (IST)},
   TITLE        = {Investigating the Impact of a Measurement Program on 
      Software Quality},
   YEAR         = {2010},
   MONTH        = {September},
   NOTE         = {10 pages.},
   NUMBER       = {9},
   PAGES        = {923--933},
   VOLUME       = {52},
   EDITOR       = {Claes Wohlin},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Quality models</b>, Venue: <b>IST</b>},
   PUBLISHER    = {Elsevier},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/IST10.doc.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {Measurement programs have been around for several 
      decades but have been often misused or misunderstood by managers and 
      developers. This misunderstanding prevented their adoption despite 
      their many advantages. In this paper, we present the results of an 
      empirical study on the impact of a measurement program, MQL, in an 
      industrial context. We analyzed data collected on 44 systems of 
      different sizes: 22 systems were developed using MQL while the other 
      22 did not use a specific measurement program (control group). We 
      studied the impact of MQL on a set of quality indicators. Our results 
      show that MQL had a clearly positive impact on all the studied 
      indicators. This impact is statistically significant for all the 
      indicators but corrective maintenance effort. We therefore bring 
      concrete evidence that a measurement program can have a significant, 
      positive impact on the quality of software systems if combined with 
      appropriate decision making procedures and corrective actions.}
}

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