Achievements and challenges in cocomo-based software resource estimation

IEEE Software

Volumn 25, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 74-83

  Boehm, Barry W ^a   Valerdi, Ricardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Biological system modeling; Capability maturity model; Cocomo; Cost estimation; Estimation; Measurement; Metrics; Programming; Schedules; Software; Software engineering; Software engineering economics

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL SYSTEM MODELING; CAPABILITY MATURITY MODEL; COCOMO; COST ESTIMATION; ESTIMATION; MEASUREMENT; METRICS; PROGRAMMING; SCHEDULES; SOFTWARE; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING ECONOMICS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 50549103020     PISSN: 07407459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/MS.2008.133     Document Type: Article

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