Cost Estimation for Commercial Software Development Organizations: Cost Estimation Tool and Method - Softcover

Tagra, Dinesh; Arora, Manisha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3847334581 ISBN 13: 9783847334583

Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

The estimation of the software cost remains one of the most challenging problems in software engineering; as a preliminary estimate of cost includes many elements of uncertainty. Reliable and early estimates are difficult to obtain because of the lack of the detailed information about the future system at an early stage. However, the early estimates are really important when bidding for a contract or determining whether a project is feasible in terms of cost-benefit analysis. Estimators often rely on their past experiences for the prediction of effort for software projects. In this Book, we discussed a software cost estimation tool that helps commercial software-development organizations to effectively and quantitatively measure and analyze the software metrics based upon the functional requirements, operational constraints and organization‟s capability to handle a project. The new cost estimation method is proposed for the iterative software development projects.

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About the Author

Mr. Dinesh Tagra has obtained his Master's degree in Computer Science from Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada in 2011 since then he has worked in different research projects in the field of Software Engineering. Ms. Manisha Arora is pursuing her Master’s degree in Computer Science from Amity University, Jaipur, India.

Edition details

• Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3847334581
• ISBN 13: 9783847334583
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 92