We are devloping an application that is a kind of development tool for developing Line Of Buisness applications. The current applications that we build are windows desktop clients but we are looking into also targeting silverlight / cloud kind of applications.
What we are looking for is a "standard" way of measuring the time to build an application of medium to large complexity. The "easy" way would be to build two versions of an application, one using "standard" tools, like VS and components, and one using our platform, but I'm looking for a more efficient way to measure smaller parts and still be able to get some useful metrics of how much time could be saved using our product.
Do you guys have any pointers for me to look at, and what to test etc?