Re: Benchmarking - Counting Lines of Oracle App. Code

From: Andy Hardy <aph_at_ahardy.demon.co.uk>
Date: 1997/04/30
Message-ID: <zZUOECAP04ZzEw7T@ahardy.demon.co.uk>#1/1

In article <tJPMcDAs7eZz0wZ7_at_hinckdev.demon.co.uk>, Roger Tickner <roger_at_hinckdev.demon.co.uk> writes
>We are performing an Application Development & Support Benchmarking
>exercise.
>
>To do this we are required to perform a count of 'logical lines of code'
>within our application. This includes Forms 3, and SQL*Reportwriter
>V1.1
>
>Does anyone have any experience or information regarding the best way to
>tackle this mamouth task or any standard rules or techniques. Any help
>would be gratefully received.
>
>Thanks

Roger,

The easiest thing to do is to point out that lines-of-code is a totally meaningless thing to measure.

If you are going to benchmark, try to measure something of use e.g. function point analysis.

Andy
Andy Hardy. PGP key available on request

Received on Wed Apr 30 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT