home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Xref: sparky comp.lang.c:16022 comp.software-eng:4158 comp.sys.mac.programmer:18031
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.software-eng,comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!att!fang!gator!miles!rms
- From: rms@miles.com (Rob Schultz)
- Subject: Re: Productivity of a C programmer ?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.134225.2098@miles.com>
- Organization: Miles Inc., Diagnostics Division, Elkhart, IN
- References: <Bx3KFK.7Er@cdsmn.mn.org> <Bx6zr4.AEC@gabriel.keele.ac.uk> <Bx753E.5qB@cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:42:25 GMT
- Lines: 23
-
- In article <Bx753E.5qB@cs.uiuc.edu> marick@cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Marick) writes:
- >
- >The size of the specification (measured a couple of ways) was poorly
- >correlated with time to test and initial coverage. Lines of code
- >(omitting blanks and comments) did slightly better. Both of them were
- >lousy predictors - individual variability and between-program
- >variability dominated.
-
-
- Brian -
-
- Did you by any chance try to correlate this data to Allan Albrecht's
- Function Points? I have been told that this is a very good method of
- predicting (non-embedded) software development/testing effort, as well
- as a good bug predictor.
-
- thanks -
- rms
-
- --
- Rob Schultz At Home: At work: +1 219 262 7206
- rms@andria.miles.com rms@miles.com
- {uunet|iuvax}!gator!miles!andria!rms {uunet|iuvax}!gator!miles!rms
-