Boraso, M. and Montangero, Carlo and Sedehi, H. (1996) Software Cost Estimation: an experimental study of model performances. Technical Report del Dipartimento di Informatica . Università di Pisa, Pisa, IT.
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Abstract
The accurate prediction of software development costs may have a large economic impact. As a consequence, considerable research attention is now directed to understand better the software development process. The objective of this paper is to provide an experimental evaluation of the applicability, universality, and accuracy of some algorithmic software cost estimating models (COCOMO, TUCOMO, PUTNAM, COPMO, ESSE, and Function Points). Data on nine Italian Management Information Systems projects were collected and used to evaluate the performance of the models. The evaluation of the estimates was based on the Mean Magnitude Relative Error and Prediction at level 25% criteria. Results indicated that the models provided interesting performances, better if recalibrated with local data.
Item Type: | Book |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | Software cost models, Function Points, Effort estimates |
Subjects: | Area01 - Scienze matematiche e informatiche > INF/01 - Informatica |
Divisions: | Dipartimenti (until 2012) > DIPARTIMENTO DI INFORMATICA |
Depositing User: | dott.ssa Sandra Faita |
Date Deposited: | 26 Jan 2015 14:32 |
Last Modified: | 26 Jan 2015 14:32 |
URI: | http://eprints.adm.unipi.it/id/eprint/2000 |
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