[net.lang] Wanted: SW Engineering Histories

tjr@ihnet.UUCP (Tom Roberts) (10/23/84)

Does anyone out there have any documented experience of software-engineering
issues for a project of about 10000 to 50000 lines of code?

For example, I would like to know:
	
	Brief description of project.

	Number of software developers (# people, # staff-months, etc.).

	Programming language(s) used (include relative fractions).

	Size of final code (NCSL perferred - specify measure).

	Total development time (broken down as finely as possible into
		development stages)

	Amount and size of software documentation produced.

	Average programmer productivity (NCSL/month, or ... - specify what
		development stages are included in the denominator).
	
	Level of experience and/or education of programming staff.

	Programming team organization (e.g. chief programmer, chiefs & indians,
		no organization, or WHATEVER).

	Bug-fix history (e.g. % lines changed/month, as a function of time 
		during the development).
	
	Software metrics (complexity measures of the code, etc.).

	Comments on the success of the project, or of the development process.

The above list is merely a list of known desires - If you have other relevant
information, I am interested. Naturally I do not expect anyone to go to
any serious effort to extract any information - please send what you have.
If I get enough responses of the sort:
	"Four of us developed a 12000-line COBOL data-base system
	 in 8 months"
I can still make some useful conclusions.

This is part of an ongoing investigation into software engineering - I
will post a summary to the net.

	Tom Roberts
	ihnp4!ihnet!tjr
	AT&T Bell Laboratories
	Naperville, IL 60566
	(312) 979-6599