ISBN : 978-81-963532-2-3 (E-Book) (e) SystemTestingPlan (f) Delivery, Installation, andMaintenancePlan METRICSFORSOFTWAREPROJECTSIZEESTIMATION Accurate estimation of the problem size is fundamental to satisfactory estimation of effort, timeduration and cost of a software project. In order to be able to accurately estimate the project size,some important metrics should be defined in terms of which the project size can be expressed.The size of a problem is obviously not the number of bytes that the source code occupies. It isneither the byte size of the executable code. The project size is a measure of the problemcomplexityin terms oftheeffort and time requiredto develop theproduct. Currently two metrics are popularly being used widely to estimate size: lines of code (LOC) andfunction point (FP). The usage of each of these metrics in project size estimation has its ownadvantagesand disadvantages. LinesofCode(LOC) 147 Software Engineering Keerthana P, Manasa KN, Ganga D Bengal
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