Towards a Unified Process Model for Comprehensive Software Metrics Suite: An Introduction

Literature has revealed proliferation in the fabrication of new software metrics and their automated representations. The number of software metrics have been on high increase with relatively unmonitored standardization in formalized definitions and documentation of software metrics. This has produced inconsistent user-defined metrics on the different tools that implement software metrics. The consequent draw-back is inconsistent metrics result across different tools implementing the same metrics. This problem forms the foundation to irregular standard and/or universal definition and interpretation of metrics output. There is therefore need for the establishment and/or reinforcement of standards and technology that monitors and track metrics evolution towards achieving homogeneity in software metrics definitions and the tools that implement them. This paper is introducing a yet comprehensive implementation of new metrics model that unifies definition, interpretation, archiving, automation and consequently, extensibility. These rippling chained processes form the unified process model for implementing software metrics.