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Metrics in Software development process

It continues to amaze me how difficult it is to get any sort of standard metrics around the software development process. And come to think of it, that should be surprising because we have measures to define even Cheese and Beef - why not software - the most analytical and logical of human activities.

Most metrics used to measure the software development process range from the truly un-interesting like 000's of lines of code to not-that-informative such as defect seepage and defect density.

Sure - defect seepage is important to know but it is not that informative from the perspective of the software dev process.

I am talking about measuring quality of code, architectural compliance, reuse of components, compliance with standard design patterns, use of standard frameworks - things that actually positively will define the software. Please let me know if you have come across initiatives to do such a thing.