How have Software Engineering Researchers been Measuring Software Productivity? - A Systematic Mapping Study

Software developer productivity loss due to technical debt—A replication and extension study examining developers’ development work

“…In this section, we discuss related work concerning software productivity, the quantification of negative effects due to TD, how TD affects the software development productivity, and, finally, the term contagious debt. Software productivity has been a frequently discussed subject since the beginning of software engineering research [20], [21]. In software engineering, productivity is commonly defined, from an economic point of view, as the effectiveness of productive effort measured in terms of the rate of output per unit input [21], [20], [22].…”

“…Software productivity has been a frequently discussed subject since the beginning of software engineering research [20], [21]. In software engineering, productivity is commonly defined, from an economic point of view, as the effectiveness of productive effort measured in terms of the rate of output per unit input [21], [20], [22]. Productivity is also a measure of the quality of an output relative to the input required to produce the output.…”

“…There are several constraints that can influence the software development productivity in general, such as cost, schedule, and scope [23]. Furthermore, Oliveira et al [20] state that researchers have not yet reached a consensus on how to measure productivity properly in software engineering. However, as mentioned in the Introduction, in this study we have decided to focus on the productivity in terms of the amount of wasted software development time because developers are hindered during their daily software development work by experiencing TD within their software.…”

Fireteam: a small-team development practice in industry

“…Petersen [39] found 16 reactive measurements together with 22 prediction measurements of software productivity. Oliveira et al [38] found that Lines of Code (LOC), Time and Effort were the three major metrics in the 91 software productivity metrics.…”

Tool for Measuring Productivity in Software Development Teams

“…Ishizaka et al [2] stated that, considering the current increasingly globalized context and the huge amount of data present in the daily life of a company, decision-makers have more than ever the need to manage their business efficiently and productively. For this reason, the theme has been discussed in works from different contexts, such as academy [3,4], computing [5], public services [6], economics [7,8], forest conservation [9], and software development teams [10][11][12][13][14].…”