Metrics That Matter in Software Integra- tion Testing Labs

Without having in place data-driven metrics that give a holistic business perspective of software integration testing laboratories, leaders of the DoD's weapons programs are unable to optimize the performance of these full- system and subsystem integration labs that test and certify integrated hardware and software during the development, modernization, and sustainment of the U.S. military's integrated and complex systems. Yet these metrics are not available across the DoD lab footprint, even though the labs' significance is growing in par- allel with the military's rapid shift from using equipment with capabilities based on advanced hardware to equipment that is dependent on fully integrated, complex systems of both hardware and software.