Subject: [xsl] Re: COCOMO project cost metrics for Saxon and XQilla From: "Vladimir Nesterovsky" <vladimir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 07:36:28 +0200 |
It would easily have taken 50 person years to write Saxon using a conventional large-team approach - except that the large team would not actually have delivered the same product.
Solo programming, like solo mountaineering, is probably 10 times more efficient (but also much more risky) than the conventional large-team approach.
Regards,
Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/ http://twitter.com/michaelhkay
-----Original Message----- From: Justin Johansson [mailto:procode@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: 02 February 2010 14:57 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [xsl] COCOMO project cost metrics for Saxon and XQilla
Hi all,
Having just happened across these COCOMO metrics*** on Ohloh for Saxon and XQilla XSLT/XQuery/XPath products/projects, I thought the list might be interested in the "bean count" estimates assuming a developer salary of $55000 p.a. to write these projects from scratch.
*** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCOMO
For Saxon (and presumably this just the Open Source Non-SA codebase)
http://www.ohloh.net/p/saxon
50 Person Years $ 2,743,467
And for XQilla
http://www.ohloh.net/p/xqilla
35 Person Years $ 1,899,031
Obviously it's anyone's guess if there's more than zero significant digits in the $ values let alone 7 digits! Actually I stumbled across the XQilla page first and, given the friendly URL, took a stab at seeing if Saxon was there too. And it was!
Any comments, people?
Cheers, Justin Johansson
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