Facts and Perceptions Regarding Software Measurement in Education and in Practice: Preliminary Results (Report‪)‬

1. Introduction This paper is part of a series of research studies related to software engineering education and software measurement education in particular. The motivation behind these studies is to help organizations succeed in the implementation of software measurement programs as part of the adoption of software process improvement initiatives. In this respect, previous studies have shown that organizations frequently face difficulties in implementing this type of programs. One of the reasons seems to be that practitioners perceive software measurement as a complex task [1-4]. Another reason may be due to the lack of guidelines for conducting measurement programs [1,5,6] in organizations. Moreover, it has been identified that universities, in software engineering education, are not paying enough attention to measurement topics in the way they should [7]. However, these topics are explicitly included in the curriculum guidelines for undergraduate and graduate programs in software engineering [8,9].