THOUSANDS OF LINES OF CODE (KLOC)

DEFINING THOUSANDS OF LINES OF CODE (KLOC)

Thousands (Kilos) of Lines of Code (KLOC) is a measure used to evaluate the size of a software program. KLOCs are often used to estimate the required time for a team to build a project. 

TECHOPEDIA EXPLAINS THOUSANDS OF LINES OF CODE (KLOC)

KLOC is sometimes used to measure team productivity. In theory, a measure like KLOC enables development firms to calculate the efficiency per developer.

That being said, most developers would believe that such measures are at best simplistic, and at worst outright useless. In many ways, a more productive developer will write less code to solve a problem in a more elegant manner. Developers aren't workers in a factory producing widgets. Anybody who thinks they can measure developer productivity by lines of code has clearly never written a line of code themselves.

SMOKE TESTING

What does Smoke Testing mean?

Smoke testing, in the context of software development, is a series of test cases that are run before the commencement of more rigorous tests. The goal of smoke testing is to verify that an application's main features work properly. A smoke test suite can be automated or a combination of manual and automated testing.

Smoke testing is a preliminary test run used to catch the high-level functional errors of an application. If the tests fail, then further testing of the application stops, and the build is refused for additional testing until the build passes the smoke test.

The term itself is derived from the electronic industry. While repairing a hardware component, if the equipment works with no smoke, the component is said to have passed the test.

Authored by: Cory Janssen