A look at Quasar Accounting

A look at Quasar Accounting

Posted Jan 20, 2005 8:58 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
Parent article: A look at Quasar Accounting

For those who are curious, Quasar is mostly written in C++ and consists of about 130,000 lines of code - here is the summary from sloccount:

Totals grouped by language (dominant language first):
cpp: 133021 (95.10%)
sh: 6193 (4.43%)
ansic: 659 (0.47%)

Total Physical Source Lines of Code (SLOC) = 139,873
Development Effort Estimate, Person-Years (Person-Months) = 35.81 (429.77)
(Basic COCOMO model, Person-Months = 2.4 * (KSLOC**1.05))
Schedule Estimate, Years (Months) = 2.09 (25.04)
(Basic COCOMO model, Months = 2.5 * (person-months**0.38))
Estimated Average Number of Developers (Effort/Schedule) = 17.17
Total Estimated Cost to Develop = $ 4,837,959
(average salary = $56,286/year, overhead = 2.40).
SLOCCount is Open Source Software/Free Software, licensed under the FSF GPL.
Please credit this data as "generated using 'SLOCCount' by David A. Wheeler."

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