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wgj on Dec 23, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why programmers are not paid in proportion to thei...

Actually, I've always seen kLOC as a divisor: defects/kLOC, branches/kLOC, etc. Even metrics like functions/kLOC are useful, if you believe in small functions.

TeHCrAzY on Dec 24, 2009 [–]

We use stats like this to help us gauge the project as a whole, but its considerly likely to be useless for measuring individuals productivity etc.

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