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From: jon@june.cs.washington.edu (Jon Jacky)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: 50,000 lines: a lot or a little?
Keywords: software engineering economics, code size, Fairley, Yourdon
Message-ID: <8587@june.cs.washington.edu>
Date: 27 Jun 89 00:06:37 GMT
Organization: U of Washington, Computer Science, Seattle
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I just ran across the following table in the textbook, SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
CONCEPTS, by Richard Fairley, 1985, McGraw-Hill.  It is table 1.1 on p. 11.
Fairley says he adapted it from Edward Yourdon, TECHNIQUES OF PROGRAM 
STRUCTURE AND DESIGN, Prentice-Hall, 1975:

	SIZE CATEGORIES FOR SOFTWARE PRODUCTS

Category	N of Programmers	Duration	Size (lines)

Trivial		1			1 - 4 wks	500 
Small		1			1 - 6 months	1K - 2K
Medium		2 - 5			1 - 2 years	5K - 50K
Large		5 - 20			2 - 3 years	50K - 100K
Very Large	100 - 1000		4 - 5 years	1M
Extremely large	2000 - 5000		5 - 10 years	1M - 10M

- Jonathan Jacky, University of Washington