What is Software Benchmarking?
Overview
Software Benchmarking is the process where organizations try to understand the processes of another organization to be able to get insights for optimizing their software processes
and software products.
Benchmarking Service Provider
There are many organizations that offer benchmarking services, where project data can be submitted to get back information of where the project fits with respect to other similar projects for which data is available in the database of the service provider.
Most benchmarking service providers provide project data for free, while others charge for the project reports.
Example Website
Example benchmarking is the ISBSG site.(International Software Benchmarking Standards Group)