Software Process and Product Measurement

Since 1990 the International Workshop on Software Measurement (IWSM) has been celebrated annually in Montr´ eal (Qu´ ebec), Canada, and di?erent places all over Germany by turns. The Montr´ eal editions were organized by the Soft- 1 ´ ware Engineering Research Laboratory (GELOG) of the Ecole de technologie ´ sup´ erieure (ETS) at the University of Qu´ ebec at Montr´ eal (UQAM), which is directed by Professor Alain Abran. The German editions were organized 2 jointly by the Software Measurement Laboratory (SMLAB) of the Otto-von- Guericke-UniversityMagdeburg,Germany,whichisdirectedbyProfessorReiner R. Dumke; and the German-speaking user association for software metrics and 3 e?ort estimation (DASMA e. V.) . Partially, the editions of IWSM were held jointly with the DASMA Software Metrik Kongress (MetriKon). 4 Organized by an initiative of Jos´ e Javier Dolado from the University of 5 the Basque Country at San Sebastian and Juan J. Cuadrado-Gallego from the University of Alcal´ a in Madrid the ?rst edition of the International Conference onSoftwareMeasurement(Mensura) couldbe convenedin C´ adiz,Spainin 2006. Motivated by this success and with the ?rst edition of Mensura ?nding special approval, the organizers of IWSM and Mensura decided to complement each other and, thus, to organize the next conference edition together. In November 2007, the typical convention month for both conferences, that joint conference was held in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.