How is PRODUCTIVITY of a software Product calculated?

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NA

  • Jun 24th, 2007
 

Size/effort

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amaralbert

  • Sep 5th, 2009
 

Any productivity can be calculated by :

Productivity= Output/Input required to produce the same output

S/W Productivity= (Size of the s/w in LOC, FP etc.)/Effort spend

Example: Suppose the total size of the project is 50 KLOC and total effort spend is 10 MM

then productivity= 50/10=5 KLOC/MM

Unit of the productivity is very important when describing the Productivity.

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kurtz182

  • Dec 23rd, 2009
 

The productivity of a software product can not be calculated in terms of software lines of code per unit of effort (SLOC / effort).  This metric is used to calculate software development productivity.  

The productivity of a software product can be calculated by

1) establishing quality criteria for the product,
2) establishing ways to measure this product quality,
3) gathering data, and  
4) establishing a baseline used for comparative analysis against releases of the same product or against other software products.    

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