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From: marks@ssdevo.enet.dec.com (Randy Marks)
Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
Subject: Re: Identifying high quality software development efforts
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Date: 12 Nov 90 04:25:34 GMT
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In article <534@pdxgate.UUCP>, warren@eecs.cs.pdx.edu (Warren Harrison) writes...
>>> Specific examples: U.S: typical 1 to 3 errors/KSLOC, .01 to .1 for critical
>>> software; Japan: some companies report .008 errors/KSLOC. 
> 
> 
>As I said, this is just a guess, but the AEL metric is mentioned many times
>in a mongraph entitled Japanese Software Engineering which is a collection
>of papers by Japanese Software Engineering figures.

Are these papers in Japanese or English?  Can somebody provide additional
info. so that I might have our library obtain copies for me?

	Randy Marks

P.S. I have acess to a translator, so even if they are in Japanese, I'm
interested.

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