> A few LOC/day rate is generally accepted to be the overall rate of development from Requirements through Final Verification/Validation. That is, you may write

> A few LOC/day rate is generally accepted to be the overall rate of development from Requirements through Final Verification/Validation. That is, you may write a product of 10kloc in just a few months of coding, but the entire software aspects of the project actually took about 2.5 years to complete. I probably should have mentioned that in my original post. :) Yes, they do lots of verification and auditing for any kind of code like that. This includes things like NASA TDRSS, space shuttle fuel flow regulators, etc. The sort of thing where people might die if an exception isn't caught. They don't necessarily want super-creative worker types itching to break rules, even if the system they are working on is indeed new and perhaps revolutionary. Things like the F35 JSF, etc.