Software project management is an interpolation of project planning, project monitoring and project termination. The substratal goals of planning are to scout for the future, to diagnose the attributes that are essentially done for the consummation of the project successfully, animate the scheduling and allocate resources for the attributes. Software cost estimation is a vital role in preeminen...

Best practices for software effort estimation can include the use of automatic techniques to summarize past data. There exists a large and growing number of techniques. Which are useful? In this study, 158 techniques were applied to some COCOMO data. 154 158 = 97% of the variants explored below add little or nothing to a standard linear model (with simple column and row pruning). For example, l...

Software effort estimation at early stages of project development holds great significance for the industry to meet the competitive demands of today’s world. Accuracy, reliability and precision in the estimates of effort are quite desirable. The inherent imprecision present in the inputs of the algorithmic models like Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) yields imprecision in the output, resulting ...

Intermediate COCOMO Model computes effort as a function of program size and a set of cost drivers. Effort adjustment factor (EAF) is calculated using 15 cost drivers. EAF is an important significant factor in computing software development effort. We have taken one delivered development project of size of 479 function points and planned for 917 Person days of SEI CMM Level 5 “Excellent” Company...

Software Cost Estimation is the challenging factor in project management. Accurate cost estimation helps to complete project with in time and budget. Due to this behavior of the project it is considered as a risky project .Under these conditions risk management is mandatory. Large numbers of estimation models have been proposed over the last 30 years. Constructive Cost Model (COCOMO) is one of ...

Many information technology firms among other organizations have been working on how to perform estimation of the resources such as fund and other resources during software development processes. Software development life cycles require lot of activities and skills to avoid risks and the best software estimation technique is supposed to be employed. Therefore, in this research, a comparative st...

A project’s elaboration profile consists of a set of ratios called elaboration factors that quantify the step-wise expansion of a project’s requirements from very high-level business objectives to very low-level source lines of code. Knowledge of a project’s elaboration profile can be extremely useful in deriving an early estimate of its size. The real challenge, however, is to predict the elab...

During the last couple of decades, CASE (Computer Aided Software Engineering) tools have played a critical role in improvement of software productivity and quality by assisting tasks in software development processes. Many initiatives in the field were pursued in the 1980’s and 1990’s to provide more effective CASE technologies and development environments. Even though the CASE field is no lon...