Re: Estimation techniques used in embedded porting projects

On Jul 31, 6:02 am, Hans-Bernhard Bröker <HBBroe...@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
ssubbarayan wrote:

My guess would be that there are no standard techniques for this, simply
because the job of "porting" is so unspecified. The software part of it

And given this to be true, most s/w engs called upon to answer such a
vague question do what a project manager would do: take the LOC number
for the original code, multiply by an arbitrary constant to get an
estimated number of resource-hours for the job, then pad by 50% or
more.

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