Simulator for Optimization of Software Project Cost and Schedule

Improving Software Project Management Skills Using a Software Project Simulator

Software project management skills are becoming an important component of software engineering education. Software engineers working in teams need to carefully plan and coordinate their efforts in order to be successful. Unfortunately, most universities provide inadequate education in software project management. Most use lecture-based approaches which provide the necessary steps in software pr...

Modeling the Impact on Project Cost and Schedule of Software Engineering Practices for Achieving and Assessing Software Quality Factors

Optimization of reliability allocation and testing schedule for software systems

To ensure an overall reliability of an integrated software system, software components of the system have to meet certain reliability requirements, subject to some testing schedule and resource constraints. The system testing activity can be formulated as a combinatorial optimization problem with known cost, reliability, effort, and other attributes of the system components. In this paper we co...

A framework for investigating software project schedule behaviour

This paper describes an ongoing empirical investigation into software project schedule behaviour at a leading, international software development organisation. Due to the complexity of the phenomena being observed and the diversity and volume of empirical evidence being collected, a framework is proposed. The framework both facilitates the organisation of single and multiple sources of evidence...

Software Project Effort and Cost Estimation Techniques

The main goal of software project cost and effort estimation is to scientifically estimate the required workload and its corresponding costs in the life cycle of software system. Software cost estimation is a complex activity that requires knowledge of a number of key attributes that affect the outcomes of software projects, both individually and in concert. The most critical problem is the lot...