Software metrics for cooperative scrum based ontology analysis

One can only control what he can measure. Measuring ontologies in general and inter-organizational ontologies in special is necessary to evaluate ontologies during cooperative development and evolution processes. A software metric is a standard of measuring the degree to which a software system and process possess some property. Metrics help to estimate the progress, quality, and health of a software and its development process. The availability of robust metrics in the early phases of the software development allows the better management of the later steps and a more efficient quality assessment when preventive or corrective actions can easily enhance quality. In this paper, we propose a set of cooperative Scrum based software metrics and architectural metrics that can be applied to cooperative ontology development and evolution process using Scrum framework. These metrics help improve cooperative teams' performance and improve the quality of development and evolution process of inter-organizational ontologies. Furthermore, most of these metrics can be applied easily to any daily ontology activities to ensure ontology reliability, maintainability, and usability.