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One of the main topic of effort study if the prediction of effort for future development phases.
Generally the project manager can estimate the number of classes that have to be created and their structure, but cannot predict the functional code complexity. CC became not suitable for predicting future complexity and so the CI and CL terms are removed.
Another metric that can be profitably used to predict effort is Number of Attributes and methods (NAM) that is a generalization of the metric defined in:
W. Li and S. Henry, “Object-Oriented metrics that predict maintainability”, JSS vol.23, 1993.