COMPLEXITY OF CLASS AND DEVELOPMENT TIME: A STUDY

Software development time depends on various attributes of the software product. In this paper, attempt has been made to define an empirical relation between software development time with respect to its dependence on lines of code, variables and methods. We have attempted to analyze the various dependencies of development time of a program upon its member functions, instance variables and the number of non-blank, non-comment lines of code. Statistical techniques have been used to assign weights to the independent variables to arrive at the results.