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Re: Re: XML As Fall Guy
- From: Ian Graham <ian.graham@utoronto.ca>
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2013 12:05:15 -0500
Worth having a look at http://scribblethink.org/Work/Softestim/kcsest.pdf,
which attempts to demonstrate:
"Algorithmic (KCS) complexity results can be interpreted
as indicating some limits to software estimation. While these
limits are abstract they nevertheless contradict enthusiastic
claims occasionally made by commercial software estimation
advocates. Specifically, if it is accepted that algorithmic
complexity is an appropriate definition of the complexity of a
programming project, then claims of purely objective estimation of
project complexity, development time, and programmer productivity
are necessarily incorrect."
Which effectively means it's impossible to predict cost / timelines
for sufficiently complex problems, without actually doing the
problem. A bit of a 'duuh' maybe for those here, but it's still
nice to have this backed up by a fancy paper with a cool
mathematical proof.
Ian
On 12/1/2013, 4:13 AM, Ihe Onwuka
wrote:
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Ian Graham // <http://www.iangraham.org>
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