• Create an SMM model:

1. Select the root Package in the Explorer
2. Right-click -> SMM Designer -> SMM Model

• Create a Library: The SMM model is composed of Libraries [3]. Each library contains some categories [4]. A library allows organizing measures related to the same domain hierarchy. In this example, libraries are organized around phases of the software development process.

1. Select the SMM Model
2. Right-click -> SMM Designer -> Measure Library

• Create a category: They are used to group related measures in the same context. For instance, if we define a Collective Measure that aggregates data of two direct measures, it is convenient to define these two measures in the same category. The Library diagram [1] provides graphical tools to create a new Category [2].

1. Select the Measure Library
2. Right-click -> SMM Designer -> Measure Category

The category diagram will allow to model the relations between its measures and other measures. Direct Measures and Named measures are the only measures that do not depend on other measures. The number and kind of relation depend on the type of the measure.

To create a new measure, open the Category Diagram [1] and create the desired measure [2].

Once created, it required to model the relations between this measures and others measures. Direct Measures and Named measures are the only measures that are not dependents of others measures.

You can define relations between measures which are not model in the same category. To do that, you have to drop the external measure (from the explorer into the current category diagram).

The measure unit is the data model of the measure. It represents the structure of data returned by the measure.

To specify the measure unit :

1. Open the measure diagram [1]
2. Create a new unit for the measure [2]
3. Create a Link unit between the measure and the unit [3]
4. Add attributes under the unit

• Select the unite
• Right-click -> Create element -> Attribute [4]

The scope of the measure allows to model the environment in which the measure will be executed. Concretely, it allows to define parametrization points for the measure implementation:

To specify the measure scope:

1. Open the measure diagram [1]
2. Create a new Scope [2]
3. Create a Link scope between the measure and the scope [3]
4. Add attributes under the scope

• Select the Scope
• Right-click -> Create element -> Attribute [4]

This is used to specify the description of each measure, scope and units. The element to describe [1] must be selected and the Note View [2] must be used to include the content in the associated Description field [3]. To add other information, whic will not be integrated in generated document, you can use another note of type Comment. Create a new note [4] and select the Comment type.