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=-0.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FREEMAIL_FROM, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,41100a78496a4c71 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-04-08 08:06:52 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news-out.visi.com!hermes.visi.com!nycmny1-snh1.gtei.net!cambridge1-snf1.gtei.net!news.gtei.net!bos-service1.ext.raytheon.com!bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Message-ID: <3CB1B1FC.57C5FB50@despammed.com> From: Wes Groleau Reply-To: wesgroleau@despammed.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en,es-MX,es,pt,fr-CA,fr MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SLOC-wars References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 10:06:36 -0500 NNTP-Posting-Host: 151.168.144.162 X-Complaints-To: news@ext.ray.com X-Trace: bos-service2.ext.raytheon.com 1018278412 151.168.144.162 (Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:06:52 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 08 Apr 2002 11:06:52 EDT Organization: Raytheon Company Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22225 Date: 2002-04-08T10:06:36-05:00 List-Id: > > But I thought (with no expertise here) that the goal of stuff like > > Halstead's metric was that you could estimate it at specification time, > > and do foresight forecasting with that estimate. I'd shudder to think > > what the accuracy of foresight guesses at SLOC from similar projects > > might accomplish in setting milestone dates and such. > > Your shudders would be misplaced. Such estimates are actually pretty good, > IF you go to the necessary level of detail. Discard your preconceptions and > read Barry Boehm's "Software Engineering Economics". Or look at the following: http://www.sei.cmu.edu/publications/articles/practice-preach/practice-preach.html -- Wes Groleau http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~wgroleau