Software Size Measurement: A Framework for Counting Source Statements

Abstract

This report presents guidelines for defining, recording, and reporting two frequently used measures of software size-physical source lines and logical source statements. We propose a general framework for constructing size definitions and use it to derive operational methods can be applied to address the information needs of different users while maintaining a common definition of software size. Software metrics, Software size, Software measure, Software measurement, Lines of code, LOC, Source lines of code, SLOC, Source statements, Source code size, Software planning and tracking.

Open PDF

Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA258304

Entities

People

  • Robert E. Park

Organizations

  • Carnegie Mellon University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • C Programming Language
  • Computer Program Documentation
  • Computer Program Reliability
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Debugging
  • High Level Languages
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Robotics
  • Software Development
  • Software Metrics
  • Software Testing
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

Readers

  • Software Engineering.
  • Statistical inference.