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Excerpt from Productivity Impacts of Software Complexity and Developer Experience
The high costs of developing and maintaining software have become widely recognized as major obstacles to the continued successful use of information technology. For example, Barry Boehm has estimated that $140 billion is spent annually worldwide on software [boehm, Therefore, even a small increase in productivity would have significant cost reduction effects. However, despite the practical importance of software productivity, there is only a limited amount of research in measuring software development productivity and in understanding the effect of software complexity on variations in productivity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
