Lines of code as normalization factor

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1)What is meaning of Lines of Code as normalization factor?

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Posted 3-Mar-12 22:29pm

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Keith Barrow 4-Mar-12 5:03am

Is this an exam question by any chance?

Richard MacCutchan 4-Mar-12 5:50am

It's meaningless either way.

Keith Barrow 4-Mar-12 5:58am

That doesn't mean it isn't an exam question :)

Richard MacCutchan 4-Mar-12 6:24am

I did not say that it wasn't.

Chuck O'Toole 4-Mar-12 11:42am

Before the invention of "panes of glass" screens, we used to use the "number of punched cards in the program as a normalization factor". AKA, paying programmers by the pound. The heavier the program deck, the better the programmer.

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Keith Barrow · Answer 1 · 2012-03-04T00:08:00

Lines of Code (LOC) is literally counting the number of lines produced by the developer(s).

A normalisation factor is used to bring data to within a standard set of values so that the values mean something when read. Percentages are a type of normalisation I suppose. If I were to calculate the percentages of red-headed, blonde and brunette children in a class of 25, the normalisation factor would be 4 (100/25) as an example.

Attempts were made using LOC to measure the size of a project, but it is a poor measure taken by itself. LOC is used in more sophisticated attempts to calculate project size and is therefore a "factor", but I don't think describing it as a "normalisation factor" is helpful. Perhaps the author just wanted to sound clever?