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A Software Estimating Model for Development Period  

이상운 (도립강원전문대학 컴퓨터응용과)
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Journal of KIISE:Software and Applications / v.31, no.1, 2004 , pp. 20-28 More about this Journal
Abstract
Estimation of software project cost, effort, and duration in the early stage of software development cycle is a difficult and key problem in software engineering. Most of development effort and duration estimation models presented by regression model of simple relation function point vs. effort and effort vs. duration instead of considering developer's productivity. But different project have need for different effort according to developer's productivity if the projects are same software size. Also, different duration takes according to developer's productivity if the projects require the same effort. Therefore, models that take into account of productivity have a limited application in actual development project. This paper presents models that can be estimate the duration according to productivity in order to compensate a shortcoming of the previous models. Propose model that could presume development period by various methods based on productivity and compared models' performance. As a result of performance comparison, an estimating model of development period from software size got simple and most good result. The model gives decision-making information of development duration to project management in the early stage of software life cycle.
Keywords
Development Effort; Development Duration; Software Size; Function Point; Variable Transformation;
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