Which Factors Affect Software Projects Maintenance Cost More?

Which Factors Affect Software Projects Maintenance Cost More?

INTRODUCTION The software industry has had significant progress in recent years. The entire life of software includes two phases: production and maintenance. Software maintenance cost is increasingly growing and estimates showed that about 90% of software life cost is related to its maintenance phase. Extraction and considering the factors affecting the software maintenance cost help to estimat...

Analysis of Factors that Affect Productivity of Enterprise Software Projects

Analysis of the factors affecting the productivity of enterprise software projects the data of which had many missing values revealed five important findings. (1) Productivity was proportional to the root of the fifth power of test case density and the root of the fifth power of fault density. (2) Developing software with a high level of security or reliability are the main causes of low produc...

The factors which contribute to successful projects

Cost Estimation in Agile Software Development Projects

Numerous studies over the years have shown that information systems development (ISD) projects often run over budget or fail entirely. Such failures are not restricted to certain industry sectors or project types; rather they occur with some regularity in systems development projects and organizations of all types and sizes. Cost estimation has long been a difficult task in systems development,...

Does Software Design Complexity Affect Maintenance Effort?

The design complexity of a software system may be characterized within a refinement level (e.g., data flow among modules), or between refinement levels (e.g., traceability between the specification and the design). We analyzed an existing set of data from NASA’s Software Engineering Laboratory to test whether changing software modules with high design complexity requires more personnel effort t...