Nine Years Challenge of In-process Measurement Platform for Software Development Project: Distribution of a New Generation Platform and a Collaborative Research Proposal

There are two "barriers" in the research of software engineering. One is "the barrier of individuality" and other one is "the barrier of secret". These have obstructed prosperity of the software engineering. For these nine years, the authors considered overthrowing these barriers. The authors realized the powerful in process measurement platform for software development project and challenged to get empirical evidence of its usefulness and its propagation. Up to now, the authors realized two generations of measurement platform and distributed them to the industry, and also carried several empirical evaluation projects. Then the authors realized the new generation of in-process measurement platform, as for it, all the former days experiences were reflected. It was utilizing the structure of remarkable progressed software development environment in recent years. And the authors stated its distribution to the industrial society. This paper looks down former day\´s empirical evaluation activities and clarifies requirements for in-process measurement platform which were obtained from those activities. It also describes the new generation measurement platform which realized those former researches. Add to them, this paper proposes the broad participation in the empirical collaborative research using this platform. Finally it is introduced related research, and positioning of this research is shown.