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Descripción
Source code size is an estimator of software effort. Size is also often used to calibrate models and equations to estimate the cost of software. The distribution of source code file sizes has been shown in the literature to be a lognormal distribution. In this paper, we measure the size of a large collection of software (the Debian GNU/Linux distribution version 5.0.2), and we find that the statistical distribution of its source code file sizes follows a double Pareto distribution. This means that large files are to be found more often than predicted by the lognormal distribution, therefore the previously proposed models underestimate the cost of software.
Internacional	Si
Nombre congreso	ICSOFT 2011 - International Conference on Software and Data Technologies
Tipo de participación	960
Lugar del congreso	Sevilla, España
Revisores	Si
ISBN o ISSN	978-989-8425-77-5
DOI
Fecha inicio congreso	18/07/2011
Fecha fin congreso	21/06/2012
Desde la página	5
Hasta la página	14
Título de las actas	Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Volume 2

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• Autor: Israel Herraiz Tabernero (UPM)

• Creador: Grupo de Investigación: Matemática e Informática Aplicadas a la Ingeniería civil