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=-0.4 required=5.0 tests=AC_FROM_MANY_DOTS,BAYES_00 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 22:27:17 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!deine.net!fr.clara.net!heighliner.fr.clara.net!news-x2.support.nl!psinet-eu-nl!psiuk-p4!uknet!psiuk-p3!uknet!psiuk-n!news.pace.co.uk!nh.pace.co.uk!not-for-mail From: "Marin David Condic" Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: SLOC-wars Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 11:13:19 -0400 Organization: Posted on a server owned by Pace Micro Technology plc Message-ID: References: <3CB1B06F.C1D68C14@despammed.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: dhcp-200-133.miami.pace.co.uk X-Trace: nh.pace.co.uk 1018278800 20986 136.170.200.133 (8 Apr 2002 15:13:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: newsmaster@news.cam.pace.co.uk NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 Apr 2002 15:13:20 GMT X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.50.4522.1200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4522.1200 Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:22258 Date: 2002-04-08T15:13:20+00:00 List-Id: You mean that if we were to write the package specs for a given system, you could examine the number and types of the parameters and estimate the size from that? I'd suspect that it would at minimum be application domain dependent, but I could at least imagine that within a given organization and a given domain, one might find a high correlation between number/types of parameters and the size of the modules.It could be useful for finding early estimates on the ultimate size of the system. If it worked, you could probably find a way of estimating it from UML diagrams at some sufficient state of completion. I'm not saying I refuse to believe it, but I'd really like to see it work in practice. MDC -- Marin David Condic Senior Software Engineer Pace Micro Technology Americas www.pacemicro.com Enabling the digital revolution e-Mail: marin.condic@pacemicro.com "Wes Groleau" wrote in message news:3CB1B06F.C1D68C14@despammed.com... > > I think it was Halstead because I read his book and not > the others (but might have been one of the other guys > quoted in the Logiscope docs) who "showed" mathematically > that all the metrics could boil down to making accurate > estimates for a module SOLELY BY THE PARAMETER PROFILE. >