Software cost estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop a software system. The basic input for the software cost estimation is coding size and set of cost drivers; the output is effort in terms of Person-Months. Here, the use of FPA and COCOMO has been proposed for the estimation of software project cost. It was found the FPA results for first case study WBDDDS was ...

As the use of commercial-of-the-shelf (COTS) components becomes ever more prevalent in the creation of large software systems, the need for the ability to reasonably predict the true lifetime cost of using such software components grows accordingly. This paper presents empirically-based findings about the effort associated with activities found to be significant in the development of systems us...

The COCOMO RAD MODEL (CORADMO) is currently implemented in two parts: a front end staged

The Authors have proposed a model that first captures the fundamentals of software metrics in the phase 1 consisting of three primitive primary software engineering metrics; they are personmonths (PM), function-points (FP), and lines of code (LOC). The phase 2 consists of the proposed function point which is obtained by grouping the adjustment factors to simplify the process of adjustment and t...

Software Estimation has always been one of the prompting challenges for the software engineers. Software cost estimation techniques helps in forecasting the amount of effort required to develop software. Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is considered to be the most widely used model for effort estimation. Cost drivers have great influence on the COCOMO and this paper investigates the role of co...

Software cost estimation is the process of predicting the effort required to develop a software system. The basic input for the software cost estimation is coding size and set of cost drivers, the output is Effort in terms of Person-Months (PM’s). Here, the use of support vector regression (SVR) has been proposed for the estimation of software project effort. We have used the COCOMO dataset and...

This paper presents a layered model which determines the software metrics in the lower layer it consists of three primitive primary software engineering metrics; they are person-months (PM), function-points (FP), and lines of code (LOC). The middle layer consists of the proposed function point which is obtained by grouping the adjustment factors. The proposed method uses fuzzy logic for quantif...

This paper describes enhancements being made to the University of Southern California’s COnstructive COTS (COCOTS) integration cost model to address security concerns. The paper starts by summarizing the actions we have taken to enhance COCOMO II to model the impact of security on development effort and duration. It then relates the COCOMO II approach to the COCOTS estimating framework so that ...

This paper presents the results of an empirical study undertaken to investigate the utility of COCOMO II model drivers in predicting the understandability of a software project. Understandability is defined as the degree of clarity of the purpose and requirements of a software system to the developers of that system at the end of the Inception phase. COCOMO II scale factors and cost drivers rel...

Now a day’s software cost/effort estimation is a very complex job to do. Several estimation techniques have been developed in this regard. This assessment of parameters like, time, cost, and number of staff required sequentially which in turn is to be done at an early stage. Constructive Cost model which is also known as COCOMO model was one of the best model to estimate the cost and time in pe...