Measurement and evaluation of modern programming practices
Philip C. Milliman · 1978
In research sponsored by the Rome Air Development Center, a 4 man year project was studied to determine the effect of modern programming practices on the life cycle of a project. Analysis of errors and error rates, the source code, and development characteristics indicated that while the project was not more productive than the standard industry project, it was consistently different and better than a similar project in the same development environment.