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Kollár Adrián

Abstract. To facilitate planning and improvement of monitoring of the development process, there are various metrics that try to measure a product or process itself. Software metrics, however, suffer from some problems which arise from the nature of the software itself. The essay will explain the nature of these problems and it will try to answer the question about contribution of metrics to software development process. An important issue is the agile software development, which is used by more and more companies these days. In accordance with the agile methodology, decisions are made by professionals and rely mainly on intuition. Recently, there were various modifications of metrics used for the needs of agile development process. If these metrics have to be meaningful, they have to be modified to reflect the agile development methodology. Can these metrics be beneficial? Is it useful to use them?


Králik Gergely

Abstract. The process of project monitoring is the possibility to learn about the state of the project development. Using project monitoring we can estimate the quality of the program, also we can measure the efforts of the individual members of the team. Now, when the agile software development is widely used we need to invest more time to the project monitoring, so we can estimate the risks, and avoid errors. The term monitoring can means monitoring of the code quality, but also means monitoring the team members as individuals. So we can determine if they work according to the plan. Monitoring consists of three main elements: collection, analysis and preparation of records. This paper describes how to monitor projects using metrics for monitoring in software development. This essay describes the options of observing the quality of the work or the process of the task allocation.


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