alt=Goal Question Metric (GQM) Paradigm|thumb|300x300px|Illustration of the goal–question–metric (GQM) paradigm GQM, the acronym for goal, question, metric, is an established goal-oriented approach to software metrics to improve and measure software quality.
alt=Goal Question Metric (GQM) Paradigm|thumb|300x300px|Illustration of the goal–question–metric (GQM) paradigm GQM, the acronym for goal, question, metric, is an established goal-oriented approach to software metrics to improve and measure software quality.
== History == GQM has been promoted by Victor Basili of the University of Maryland, College Park and the Software Engineering Laboratory at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center after supervising a Ph.D. thesis by Dr. David M. Weiss. Dr. Weiss' work was inspired by the work of Albert Endres at IBM Germany.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).