Software project development cost estimation
Barbara Kitchenham,N. R. Taylor +1 more
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An empirical investigation of the relationships between effort expended, time scales, and project size for software project development suggested it was possible to develop cost models tailored to a particular environment and to improve the precision of the models as they are used during the development cycle by including additional information such as the known effort for the early development phases.About:
This article is published in Journal of Systems and Software.The article was published on 1985-11-01 and is currently open access. It has received 82 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: COCOMO & Putnam model.read more
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A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
Magne Jørgensen,Martin Shepperd +1 more
TL;DR: A systematic review of previous work identifies 304 software cost estimation papers in 76 journals and classifies the papers according to research topic, estimation approach, research approach, study context and data set to provide a basis for the improvement of software-estimation research.
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Software measurement: a necessary scientific basis
TL;DR: It is shown that the search for general software complexity measures is doomed to failure and the theory does help to define and validate measures of specific complexity attributes, and is able to view software measurement in a very wide perspective.
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A Systematic Review of Software Development Cost Estimation Studies
Jorgensen,Shepperd +1 more
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An assessment and comparison of common software cost estimation modeling techniques
TL;DR: This paper assess and compare a selection of common cost modeling techniques fulfilling a number of important criteria using a large multi-organizational database in the business application domain and shows that the performances of the modeling techniques considered were not significantly different, with the exception of the analogy-based models which appear to be less accurate.
Software engineering economics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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Software engineering economics
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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Software Engineering Economics
TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide an overview of economic analysis techniques and their applicability to software engineering and management, including the major estimation techniques available, the state of the art in algorithmic cost models, and the outstanding research issues in software cost estimation.
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The Mythical Man-Month
TL;DR: The Mythical Man-Month, Addison-Wesley, 1975 (excerpted in Datamation, December 1974), gathers some of the published data about software engineering and mixes it with the assertion of a lot of personal opinions.
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A General Empirical Solution to the Macro Software Sizing and Estimating Problem
TL;DR: Application software development has been an area of organizational effort that has not been amenable to the normal managerial and cost controls.
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A method of programming measurement and estimation
C. E. Walston,C. P. Felix +1 more
TL;DR: A method of programming project productivity estimation is discussed and preliminary results of research into methods of measuring and estimating programming project duration, staff size, and computer cost are presented.