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Cost Estimation: Van Vliet, Chapter 7 Glenn D. Blank
Cost Estimation: Van Vliet, Chapter 7 Glenn D. Blank
Person-months
LOC/KLOC
Bottom up estimates
Formal or algorithmic
cost models
But for many projects its not possible to gather the input
data needed
At best, formal cost models yield estimates that are at most
25% off, 75% of the time, for the projects used to derive the
model
May imply more uncertainty for new projects (the ones we
want to estimate)
COCOMO
(1981)
Input types, output types, inquiry types, logical internal files, interfaces
May also apply corrections for differences in complexity of data types
Note: objects are screens, reports and 3GL modules, not OOP classes
COCOMO 2
(1995, 1997)
Post-Architecture model