International Organization for Standardization

Systems and software engineering - Measurement process - Second Edition
 N ISO/IEC 15939

Annotation

Purpose.

This International Standard identifies the activities and tasks that are necessary to successfully identify, define, select, apply and improve measurement within an overall project or organizational measurement structure. It also provides definitions for measurement terms commonly used within the system and software industries.

This International Standard does not catalogue software measures, nor does it provide a recommended set of measures to apply on software projects. It does identify a process that supports defining a suitable set of measures that address specific information needs.

Field of application

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This International Standard is intended to be used by suppliers and acquirers. Suppliers include personnel performing management, technical and quality management functions in system and software development, maintenance, integration and product support organizations. Acquirers include personnel performing management, technical and quality management functions in procurement and user organizations. The following are examples of how this International Standard can be used:

by a supplier to implement a measurement process to address specific project or organizational information requirements;

by an acquirer (or third-party agents) for evaluating conformance of the supplier's measurement process to this International Standard;

by an acquirer (or third-party agents) to implement a measurement process to address specific technical and project management information requirements related to the acquisition;