Impact of Dynamicity and Causality on Cost Drivers in Effort Estimation

Suman Roychoudhury, Sagar Sunkle, Vinay Kulkarni

2014

Abstract

Software cost estimation is an important step that decides upon the effective manpower, schedule, pricing, profit and success for executing any medium to large sized project. Depending upon the underlying development methodology (e.g., code-centric, model-driven, product-line etc.) and past experience, every enterprise follows some cost estimation strategy that may be derived and customized from a standard cost model (e.g., COCOMO II). However, most software cost estimation techniques that are done at the start of a project do not consider the dynamicity and causality among cost drivers that can alter the accuracy of estimation. In this paper, we investigate those cost drivers that are time and inter-dependent and use system dynamics to simulate their effect in effort estimation.

References

  1. Albrecht, A. J., Gaffney Jr., J.E., 1983. Software Function, Source Lines of Code, and Development Effort Prediction: A Software Science Validation. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Vol. 9, Issue 6, pp. 639-648.
  2. Azzeh, M., Neagu, D., Cowling, P.I., 2010: 'Fuzzy grey relational analysis for software effort estimation', Empirical Software Engineering, Vol. 15, Issue 1, pp. 60-90, Springer.
  3. Bailey, J.W., Basili, V.R., 1981. A meta-model for software development resource expenditures. In Internatoinal Conference in Software Engineering, ICSE'81 pp. 107-116.
  4. Boehm, B., Abts, C., Brown, W., Chulani, S., Clark, B., Madachy, R., Reifer, D., Steece, Bert., 2000. Software Cost Estimation with Cocomo II. Prentice Hall.
  5. Boehm, B., Brown, A.W., Madachy, R., Yang, Y., 2004. A Software Product Line Life Cycle Cost Estimation Model. Empirical Software Engineering, ISESE, pp. 156-164, IEEE.
  6. Forrester, J., 1961. Industrial Dynamics, MIT Press.
  7. Kläs, M., Trendowicz, A., Wickenkamp, A., Münch, J., Kikuchi, N., Ishigai, Y., 2008. The Use of Simulation Techniques for Hybrid Software Cost Estimation and Risk Analysis. Advances in Computers, pp. 115 - 174.
  8. Lum, K.., Bramble, M., Hihn, J., Hackney, J., Khorrami, M., Monson, E., 2003. Handbook of Software Cost Estimation,Report, Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
  9. Madachy, R.J., 1996. System dynamics modeling of an inspection-based process. In Internatoinal Conference in Software Engineering, ICSE'96, pp. 376 - 386
  10. Meadows, D., 2008. Thinking in systems : a primer. Chelsea Green Publishing, Vermont.
  11. Walston, C.E., Felix, C.P., 1977. A method of Programming Measurement and Estimation.IBM Systems Journal, 16, (1), pp. 54-73.
  12. Roychoudhury, S., and Kulkarni, V., 2011. MobileEnabling Enterprise Business Applications using Model-Driven Engineering Techniques. In Proc. 2nd Workshop on Software Engineering for Mobile Application Development, MobiCase'11.
  13. Smith, R.W., 1991. Investigating the utility of coupling COCOMO with a system dynamics simulation of software development. Master Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School.
  14. Sunkle, S., Kulkarni, V., 2012. Cost Estimation For Model-driven Engineering. In MoDELS'12, pp. 659- 675
Download


Paper Citation


in Harvard Style

Roychoudhury S., Sunkle S. and Kulkarni V. (2014). Impact of Dynamicity and Causality on Cost Drivers in Effort Estimation . In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-028-4, pages 409-414. DOI: 10.5220/0004969904090414


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis14,
author={Suman Roychoudhury and Sagar Sunkle and Vinay Kulkarni},
title={Impact of Dynamicity and Causality on Cost Drivers in Effort Estimation},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2014},
pages={409-414},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004969904090414},
isbn={978-989-758-028-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Impact of Dynamicity and Causality on Cost Drivers in Effort Estimation
SN - 978-989-758-028-4
AU - Roychoudhury S.
AU - Sunkle S.
AU - Kulkarni V.
PY - 2014
SP - 409
EP - 414
DO - 10.5220/0004969904090414