Do the metrics take the impact of tools into account ? Some of the examples I've looked at seem to include "all" lines of code produced from an environment like Delphi or VB, even though >80% of this "code" is produced from the IDE.
I'm sure the same would be true of tools like SB+, and certainly with our Viságe product, though in both cases this would be offset to a degree by the effort involved in "smartening up" dictionaries Many of the "things" that historically required "hard code" can now be reduced to parameter settings for an "object" - how do you measure this ? Or the flow through effect of changing an output conversion from, say, D2/ to D4/, in an active dictionary environment. The productivity impact is obvious - but how do you quantify that sort of "gain" ? especially when it may be tempered by the fact that other parts of an organization/system may still be using "old fashioned", hand crafted PickBasic ? (I don't really want/need an answer to this, as I think the "results" could be skewed to show "anything", and the time taken to gain the result/insight could be longer than the time taken to get the job done ?!?) Ross Ferris Stamina Software Visage - an Evolution in Software Development >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Lee Leitner >Sent: Thursday, 15 April 2004 11:14 PM >To: U2 Users Discussion List >Subject: Re: Productivity metrics > >Sounds about right IMO. > >On Thu, 15 Apr 2004, Bob Dubery wrote: > >> Which'd put MV Basic at at about 35 LOC/FP. >> >> Interestingly that's not far off the score I arrived at by gut feel. >> >> -- >> u2-users mailing list >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users >> > >------------------------------------------------------ >Lee J. Leitner, Ph.D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.leitner.org/~leitnerl > >The world can only be grasped by action, not by >contemplation. The hand is the cutting edge of the mind. > -- Jacob Bronowski V.13.0 >------------------------------------------------------- >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > > >--- >Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. >Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). >Version: 6.0.658 / Virus Database: 421 - Release Date: 9/04/2004 > --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.658 / Virus Database: 421 - Release Date: 9/04/2004 -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
