This paper presents a case study regarding the monitoring and measuring activities we carried out for the adoption of domain analysis inside a software firm with the purpose to improve the software process and to introduce software reuse practices. Domain analysis is the process of identifying, collecting, and organising all the artefacts used in software development in a particular domain with the purpose to make them reusable. This methodology proposes to enhance the software process of a firm, augmenting productivity, reducing time to market and improving the quality of the delivered products. One of the most important use of domain analysis is to foster software reuse not only of code but of every artefact involved in the software life cycle. The case study we describe took place in a real industrial project, integrating the software development process of the organisation with the new practices coming from the introduction of domain analysis. We set up the monitoring program for measuring the state of the experiment and we analysed the measures we collected in order to evaluate the results of the project. The information we collected was the basis for the final evaluation of the experiment. We found that domain analysis, and reuse practices that it fosters, can take real benefits to the organisation. We showed that the monitoring program was well accepted by the personnel and it played a central role in the efficient control of the experiment.
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