Approximations for the Halstead software science software error rate and project effort estimators

Authors:
Victor Schneider
Affiliations:
Framingham State College, Framingham, MA
Venue:
ACM SIGPLAN Notices
Year:
1988

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Software engineering metrics and models

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Abstract

Experimental estimators are presented relating the expected number of software errors (B) in a software development project tothe overall reported months of programmer effort for the project (E)the number of subprograms (n)the count of thousands of coded source statements (S)These estimators areB ≈ 7.6 E0.667 S0.333andB ≈ n ((S/n)/.047)1.667These estimators are shown to be consistent with data obtained from the air force Rome air development center, the naval research laboratory, and Fujitsu corporation. It is suggested here that more data is needed to refine these estimators further.