Source Lines Counter (SLiC) version 4.0

About this technology

Overview

SLiC has been used in a variety of projects and missions at JPL, with over 75 active users at JPL alone. It is the official code counter endorsed by the Software Quality Improvement Project for its metrics collections effort across JPL and SQIs most requested software product. SLiC provides data for cost models used during all major JPL pre-Phase A software estimation activities as well as cost validation activities throughout project lifecycles. SLiC is used to gather metrics for the JPL State of Software report to measure process trends in flight projects and multimission ground system services.