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Quote: 20% of maintenance cost due to procedure size; optimal size was 44 executable statements

topics > all references > references a-b > QuoteRef: bankRD11_1993 , p. 89



Topic:
identifying program modules
Topic:
software metrics
Group:
software maintenance

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Hypothesis 1 was that maintenance costs would be … effect of the two PROCSIZE terms: [P(..) < 0.0001] A U-shaped relationship between PROCSIZE and software maintenance costs was … At this site the minimum-cost procedure size was … 44 executable statements … This value is very close to the mean … from 13 to 87 executable statements. [1 std. dev. change accounts for 20-25% increase in maintenance cost]   Google-1   Google-2

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