locke@pdn.paradyne.com (Richard Locke) (11/29/90)
Does anyone know an approximate relationship between Function Points
and LOC for the C++ programming language? References
would also be appreciated.
Thanks,
-dick
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In article <1990Nov29.140601.26970@pdn.paradyne.com> locke@pdn.paradyne.com (Richard Locke) writes: >Does anyone know an approximate relationship between Function Points >and LOC for the C++ programming language? Seems to me that this would make a great empirical study...... and someone in, say, an AT&T environment would be in a perfect position to study several C++ developments (the more the better) and write a really nice paper about relationships between function points and executable lines of code FOR SOME APPLICATION DOMAIN and IN SOME PARTICULAR ENVIRONMENT. Anyone want to fund me for 6 months to study this in their organization? (I'm only 1/2 kidding, and I do NOT mean to use the net for financial gain) No relationship is going to apply to ALL applications, environments, etc. But data like this is *very* useful in the environment where it was gathered, and somewhat interesting as a baseline in other environments where measurement work is a little less advanced. Has anyone done such a study? It would make a great paper for me to review for a class I'm in right now, so I'm interested too! chris... -- Christopher Lott Dept of Comp Sci, Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 cml@cs.umd.edu 4122 AV Williams Bldg 301-405-2721 <standard disclaimers>