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by Cpoll 2317 days ago
I wonder if LOC changed isn't often reversely proportional to time taken.

500 LOC feature: Add a new route that does something boring; 5 story points.

5 LOC feature: Fix mysterious performance degradation in X; 13 story points.

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I think for defect estimation you are right, but for feature estimation (new code, not fixing bad code) the correlation is positive.