Capers Jones Quotes

United States, Engineer
January 1, 1938

Capers Jones is an American specialist in software engineering methodologies, and is often associated with the function point model of cost estimation.

The use of lines of code metrics for productivity and quality studies is to be regarded as professional malpractice starting in 1995.

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- Quality
- Study
- Lines
Perhaps the worst software technology of all time was the use of physical lines of code for metrics. Continued use of this approach, in the author's opinion, should be considered professional malpractice.

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- Technology
- Opinion
- Worst

High-quality software is not expensive. High-quality software is faster and cheaper to build and maintain than low-quality software, from initial development all the way through total cost of ownership.

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- Quality
- Development
- Cost
There are thousands of ways to mess up or damage a software projects, and only a few ways to do them well

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- Way
- Projects
- Software
Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

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