COCOMO - appropriate for languages like Python? (fwd)

[Mike Brenner]

Hi aahzpy!

I am very interested in this problem, and would like to help, but I don't know what you mean. 

I viewed this message in textpad, microsoft word, wordpad, and netscape 4.79, and the two paragraphs below look the same. 

Is this possibly an Internet Explorer problem? Or is it a side-effect of the automatic reposting of python-list at python.org messages to comp.lang.python? 

Or it is a side-effect of translating from Windows format files to Linux format files?

Mike Brenner
 


aahzpy at panix.com wrote:
> 
> This looks like a fascinating post, but it's very hard to read because
> each paragraph is on long line instead of multiple shorter lines that
> fit on an 80-column display.
> 
> Compare this
> 
>         - Software Maintenance time primarily increases as backlog increases (e.g. programmer overtime which the company intends to not pay, other work awaiting action, inadequate functional testing, deferred regression testing which detects reappearance of prior bugs, incomplete impact analysis of past and present changes, incorrect documentation, and the age of parallel development paths). For example, parallel development paths that last more than a few days (fractured baselines) start to take on lives of their own, and become more expensive to merge into a single "golden" baseline as they age.
> 
> to this
> 
>         - Software Maintenance time primarily increases as backlog
> increases (e.g. programmer overtime which the company intends to not pay,
> other work awaiting action, inadequate functional testing, deferred
> regression testing which detects reappearance of prior bugs, incomplete
> impact analysis of past and present changes, incorrect documentation, and
> the age of parallel development paths). For example, parallel development
> paths that last more than a few days (fractured baselines) start to take
> on lives of their own, and become more expensive to merge into a single
> "golden" baseline as they age.