A context-dependent cost effectiveness indicator for software development
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Product quality, development productivity, and staffing needs are main cost drivers in software development. In particular the tension between productivity and quality makes it difficult to gauge the relative cost-effectiveness of a software development using separate quality and productivity measures. The paper proposes a one-stop cost-effectiveness indicator that resolves the tension between these two cost drivers, by combining productivity, quality, and staffing needs through an economic criterion. Contextspecific instances of the indicator can be used as key performance measures to rank comparable software projects or as dependent variables to evaluate development techniques whose effectiveness hinge on the tradeoff between their relative productivity and quality benefits. The use of the indicator is demonstrated by applying it to the findings of two empirical studies.
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