From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,350d56069dc98b72,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,350d56069dc98b72,start X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-10-25 15:18:06 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.software-eng Path: nntp.gmd.de!newsserver.jvnc.net!news.cac.psu.edu!news.pop.psu.edu!hudson.lm.com!nntp.club.cc.cmu.edu!cantaloupe.srv.cs.cmu.edu!bb3.andrew.cmu.edu!news.sei.cmu.edu!lpb From: lpb@sei.cmu.edu (Loic Briand) Subject: Lines of documentation per LOC Message-ID: <1994Oct25.170005.27711@sei.cmu.edu> Keywords: documentation LOC design SDD Sender: netnews@sei.cmu.edu (Netnews) Organization: The Software Engineering Institute Date: Tue, 25 Oct 1994 17:00:05 EDT Xref: nntp.gmd.de comp.lang.ada:16157 comp.software-eng:19156 Date: 1994-10-25T17:00:05-04:00 List-Id: Is there any document or source of information that provides an accepted (?) ratio (lines of documentation / lines of code) for a software design document (SDD)? Talking with people around me, I got values between 10 and 0.1, but no rationale other than: "the description has to be complete and sufficient to allow modifications" and stuff like that. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- O p i n i o n s e x p r e s s e d h e r e a r e m y o w n -- -- Loic Briand SEI Resident Affiliate lpb@sei.cmu.edu (412) 268-6674 -- -- Sponsored by Wilcox Electric/Thomson-CSF briand@wilcox.com --