Odyssey and Other Code Science Success Stories

®, an agile software development methodology based on eXtreme Programming (XP), we 1 recently delivered an application (code-named Odyssey) consisting of 400,000-plus executable source lines of code (ESLOC) to one of the world’s premier industrial automation companies. The application was written in C++ by as many as 17 developers (including some of our customer’s staff) in approximately 15 months. We are geographically remote from this customer. Odyssey was delivered a month and a half ahead of schedule with a productivity rate of 43 ESLOC per coding hour. During the project duration, approximately 2,400 defects were found and fixed, yielding a captured defect density of six defects per thousand lines of code (KLOC). During a thorough, more than six-week customer-conducted acceptance test, only about 200 defects were found (none severe), yielding a delivered defect density of 0.5/KLOC. The customer is delighted with the product and is confident of the competitive edge achieved.