The FLOSSMetrics project

FLOSSMetrics stands for Free/Libre Open Source Software Metrics.

The main objective of FLOSSMETRICS is to construct, publish and analyse a large scale database with information and metrics about libre software development coming from several thousands of software projects, using existing methodologies, and tools already developed. The project will also provide a public platform for validation and industrial exploitation of results.

FLOSSMetrics targets

• Identify and evaluate sources of data and develop a comprehensive database structure, built upon the results of CALIBRE
• Integrate already available tools to extract and process such data into a complete platform
• Build and maintain an updated empirical database applying extraction tools to thousands of open source projects
• Develop visualisation methods and analytical studies, especially relating to benchmarking, identification of best practices, measuring and predicting success and failure of projects, productivity measurement, simulation and cost/effort estimation
• Disseminate the results, including data, methods and software
• Provide for exploitation of the results by producing an exploitation plan, validated with the project participants from industry especially from an SME perspective