As an indicator of software productivity, the ratio of software size to software development effort is often used. The productivity evaluation with this indicator depends on the physical volume of software, does not depend on its quality. Therefore, in some cases, we get a productivity evaluation of which we cannot be convinced immediately. This paper proposes a new productivity indicator that, as elements, explicitly has not only the physical volume of software but also software quality in the broad sense. Furthermore, we make trial use of the new productivity indicator to real software systems, and we examine its usefulness. The results of this study can be summarized as follows: ・The values of the new indicator are smaller than the values of the old indicator. ・In some cases, the orders of evaluation of the old indicator and the new indicator are reversed. ・The new indicator is more consistent with developer's actual feelings than the old indicator.
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