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- From: ewoods@hemel.bull.co.uk (Eoin Woods)
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- Subject: Re: Complexity metrics: Beyond McCabe.
- Message-ID: <1992Nov23.125348.26614@uk03.bull.co.uk>
- Date: 23 Nov 92 12:53:48 GMT
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- paj@uk.co.gec-mrc (Paul Johnson) writes:
- >I have had a look at function points. The trouble is that they behave
- >like fractals: the closer you look the more you see. This strikes me
- >as useless.
- That is a fair point for inexperienced FP counters - however the basic
- point is that FPs are a specification sizing metric, not a complexity
- metric.
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- All bets are off as to the correlation between size and complexity!
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- Eoin.
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