Last updated: April 28, 2006

Project Metrics

Project Metrics help you assess and communicate the status of your project and provide a quantitative basis for making important project decisions.  They also help your course instructor and project sponsor assess the status of your project.

During the semester you will provide weekly reports to your course instructor documenting the time spent working on the project.  The Project Reporting System, PRS, is used to document your effort in a number of different categories.  By itself, effort metrics mean very little.  However, in a team setting and when combined with other information, they can become an important indicator of who is doing what, and whether each team member is contributing his or her fair share of the work.

You will be using StatCVS-XML to report on the amount of code you've developed.  Information about this tool can be found at: http://statcvs-xml.berlios.de/  You are expected to make this product run from your course account so that it provides daily updates reflecting activity in CVS.  After code development has reached the stage where code is being made available to other members of your team, formal documentation of defects found and defects fixed will be reported.  This data is helpful in determining the health of the code being produced and is also useful in guiding the testing effort.  Data on test cases developed, executed, and passing will also be used to manage your project.  Graphs depicting this information are required in each release presentation and the final project presentation.