Abstract
Success in software engineering depends primarily on managerial considerations, which are in turn contingent on an accurate and reliable cost-estimation procedure. Among the many software cost-estimation procedures available today, COCOMO stands out by its concern for accuracy and the thoroughness of its procedures. But COCOMO is calibrated to a specific profile of projects and performs best when it is applied to a project of that specific profile. The paper discusses an effort to build a COCOMO-like, tailor-made cost-estimation model. Guidelines are given on how to calibrate Intermediate COCOMO to an arbitrary project profile.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 232-238 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Information and Software Technology |
Volume | 33 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Apr 1991 |
Externally published | Yes |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Software
- Information Systems
- Computer Science Applications
Keywords
- COCOMO
- cost estimation
- cost-estimation models
- software economics