What are the advantages and disadvantages of the lines of code(LOC)?

      

What are the advantages and disadvantages of the lines of code(LOC)?

  

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Francis
Advantages
1. Can be very quick and inexpensive to generate
2. Can be done early in the process
3. Universal metric
4. Can be generated easily, in most environments automatically
5. Facilitate a lessons-learned process

Disadvantages
1. Must compensate for technology differences e.g. coding in COBOL more involving than in JAVA.
2. Can’t be done well unless relevant history exists
3. Must determine what counts as a line of code
4. What level of resource is generating the code
5. No industry standards
6. Need to distinguish between auto-generated code and original work
7. Needs to be continually updated
francis1897 answered the question on March 14, 2023 at 05:53


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