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We describe some project experiences using software product metrics in the second half of 1994. The goals of the projects were quality assurance and assessment, preventive maintenance test planning, migration, risk analysis, re-design, re-structuring, reverse engineering, and generation of new documentation. The clients were large organisations in railway, banking, insurance, government (taxing), social security, and telecommunication. We analysed > 10 million lines of code in COBOL, PL/I, Pascal, C, C++, and RPG. We report initial observations from these projects. In the future the results of these experiences will be analysed statistically. Some interesting results are already appearing at this moment: (i) problems in legacy systems have their cause in the design, not in the structure of the code. We see the consequences of years of maintenance of the software in the detonated quality; (ii) re-design, and re-structuring of existing systems are less costly and safer solutions to these problems than re-building.
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Bakker, G., Hirdes, F. (1995). Recent industrial experiences with software product metrics. In: Nesi, P. (eds) Objective Software Quality. SQ 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 926. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-59449-3_32
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