A study of uncertainty in software cost and its impact on optimal software release time

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 813-825

  Yang, Bo ^a   Hu, Huajun ^a   Jia, Lixin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Cost estimation; Nonhomogeneous Poisson process (NHPP); Reliability; Software release; Time estimation

Indexed keywords

BLOOD VESSEL PROSTHESES; COMPUTER SOFTWARE SELECTION AND EVALUATION; CONCURRENCY CONTROL; COSTS; DECISION MAKING; ELECTRIC CONDUCTIVITY MEASUREMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POISSON EQUATION; QUALITY ASSURANCE; RELIABILITY; RISK PERCEPTION; SOFTWARE TESTING;

ACTUAL COSTS; CONTROL APPROACHES; COST ESTIMATION; CURRENT FORMULATIONS; EXPECTED COSTS; NONHOMOGENEOUS POISSON PROCESS (NHPP); OPTIMAL SOFTWARE RELEASE PROBLEMS; PROJECT COSTS; RELEASE TIMES; RISK FUNCTIONS; SOFTWARE COSTS; SOFTWARE PROJECTS; SOFTWARE RELEASE; SOLUTION PROCEDURES; TIME ESTIMATION;

SOFTWARE RELIABILITY;

EID: 58049193898     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2008.47     Document Type: Article

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