Thu, 13 Feb 1997 21:47:52 -0600
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> I'm trying to estimate a conversion factor for a particular Ada 95
> compiler on a particular target. The conversion is from SLOC (loosely
> translated: number of semi-colons) to bytes of executable code.
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> Does anyone have any guidance on how I could do this, given that I have
> little to no past history to base it on (Ada 95, that is)? Is there any
> research published on the WWW that speaks to this?
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> James Squire
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James,
The best source of material that I know of in this area is
the software productivity institute. You can access their
language-level material at the URL
<A HREF="http://www.spr.com/">
Capers Jones Software Productivity Research</A> in Massessusetts<BR>
<A HREF="http://www.spr.com/library/langtbl.htm">
SPR's Language Level List</A> shows relationships between function-points and lines-of-code<BR>
This maps at the *source* level, but I think thye also have
similar data at the *object* level. I was told that there
are agreements you need to make with them to provide them with
data which you measure in order to get shared data from them;
but I don't know that for a fact.
Best, ..Paul
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