The objective of this paper is to investigate the use of cross-company and within-company cost estimation model for Web projects. The study analysis method we used was a forward, stepwise regression of web project development effort with independent variables that were used for on-line web application price quotations. Model cross-validation used two approaches: one-fold cross validation and a ...

Background: Software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort of software projects. Providing accurate software size estimation is a complex task. A number of functional size measurement (FSM) methods have been proposed to quantify the size of software based on functional user requirements (user perspective). Function point analysis (FPA) was the first proposal...

Most dependable embedded real-time systems designed in the past have been specialized to meet the speciic requirements of the application domain for which they were targeted, leading to innexible and often hardware-intensive solutions that are costly to design and maintain. This paper is devoted to the description of Hades, a software infrastructure to develop and execute distributed dependable...

W hen will it be done? " Senior managers will ask their software project managers this question more than 250,000 times this year. Corporations, which collectively commit over US$300 billion annually toward new software project initiatives, 1 will want to know the answer. However, when you consider Barry Boehm's claim that early software life-cycle estimates vary by a factor of four (25 to 400 ...

This paper is a summary of a PhD thesis which describes our effort to define and validate requirements volatility measures. These measures have been proven to be reliable predictors of requirements volatility. 1. TECHNICAL PROBLEM Since requirements often change, even during development, it is important to predict the continuing definition of requirements as they change throughout the software ...