• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제19권2호
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• pp.181-196
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• 2012

The cost of software maintenance occupies about two thirds in the software lifecycle. However, it is not easy to estimate the cost of software maintenance because of various viewpoints about software maintenance, unclear estimation methods, and complex procedures. Until now, the cost estimation model has used compensation factors for software characteristic and environment on the basis of program size. Especially, most of existing models use maintenance rate of total software cost as a main variable. This paper suggests the software maintenance cost estimation model that uses the result of calculating real maintenance efforts. In this paper, we classify functional maintenance and non-functional maintenance as software maintenance activity type. For functional maintenance, present function point of target software is needed to evaluate. The suggested maintenance cost evaluation model is applied to a software case in public sector. This paper discusses some differences between our model and other modes.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• 제12권3호
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• pp.697-704
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• 2005

Computer software has gradually become an indispensable elements in many aspects of our daily lives and an important factor in numerous systems. In recent years, it is not unusual that the software cost is more than the hardware cost in many situations. In addition to the costs of developing software, the repair cost resulting from the software failures are even more significant. In this paper, a cost model with warranty cost, time to remove each fault detected in the software system, and delivery delay cost is developed. We use a software reliability model based on non-homogeneous Poisson process (NHPP). We discuss the optimal release policies to minimize the expected total software cost. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results.

• 통합자연과학논문집
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• 제9권3호
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• pp.206-214
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• 2016

The basic goal of software development is to produce high quality software at low cost. Therefore, when to stop software testing and release the software product is a significant point in the software development. The software cost model is an effective tool used to help software developers control costs and determine the release time. In this paper, we discuss the cost model to apply all 6 models with consideration of time to remove errors, cost of removing each error and risk cost due to software failure. We show the impact of cost coefficients and parameter values on the expected total cost by changing the values and comparing the optimal release times.

• 경영과학
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• 제14권1호
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• pp.131-149
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• 1997

Software cost estimation is an important both for buyers and sellers(developers). We reviewed domestic and foreign researches and practices on software cost estimation with function point method comprehensively, In this paper, we derived four promising alternative function point models. They are an IFPUG(International Function Point User Group)-based model(Model I), a shorthand model for client/sever software systems(Model II), a data-oricnted model for relatively large software projects(Model III), and a general- purpose function point model for non business application softwares as well as business applications(Model IV). Empirical data shows that Model I, II, and IV are very useful function point models. In particular, model II and IV look very useful models since they are concise and accurate. These models can be incorporated in a new improved guideline for software cost estimation. General opinion survey shows that Model I, II and IV are preferable. There are no significant differences in preference between buyers and sellers. The survey also shows that users think function point method is better than step(line of code)-oriented cost estimation methods in many ways including objectivity and estimation accuracy.

• 한국신뢰성학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국신뢰성학회 2005년도 학술발표대회 논문집
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• pp.251-257
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• 2005

Software system which is essential in operating the computer has gradually become an indispensable element in many aspects of our daily lives and an important factor in numerous systems. In recent years, software cost sometimes exceeds the cost of maintaining the hardware system. In addition to the cost necessary to develop the new software system and to maintain the system, the penalty costs incurred due to software failures are even more significant. In this paper, a cost model incorporating the warranty cost, debugging costto remove each fault detected in the software system, and delivery delay cost is developed. A software reliability model based on non-homogeneous Poisson process(NHPP) is established and the optimal software release policies to minimize the expected total software cost are discussed. Numerical examples are provided to illustrate the results.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.554-560
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• 2019

본 연구에서는 소프트웨어 신뢰성 분야에서 많이 사용하는 유한고장 NHPP Rayleigh 분포 모형과 NHPP Inverse Rayleigh 분포 모형을 소프트웨어 개발비용 모형에 적용한 후, 개발비용과 최적의 방출시간에 대한 속성을 비교, 분석하였다. 소프트웨어 개발비용의 속성을 분석하기 위하여 소프트웨어 고장시간 자료를 사용하였고, 모수추정은 최우추정법을 적용하였으며, 비선형 방정식은 이분법을 사용하여 계산하였다. 그 결과, Rayleigh 모형이 Inverse Rayleigh 모형보다 소프트웨어 개발비용이 비교적 적고, 소프트웨어 방출시점도 빨라서 상대적으로 우수한 모형임을 확인할 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통하여 기존 연구사례가 없는 Rayleigh 모형과 Inverse Rayleigh 모형의 개발비용 속성을 새롭게 분석하였으며, 더불어 소프트웨어 개발자들이 소프트웨어 신뢰도 향상 방법 및 개발비용의 속성을 탐색하는 데 필요한 기본지침으로 활용할 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.43-70
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• 2009

As software development and maintenance cost increase quickly, information systems managers are more concerned about how to effectively manage software cost. To estimate the software development cost, most public institutes of Korea use the software cost estimation standard established by the government. Unfortunately, the accuracy of the estimation derived from the standard has not been satisfactory in spite of repetitive modifications made to improve it. One of the major reasons for the inaccuracy is that the standard has too small a number of cost adjustment factors to reflect the various characteristics of a software development project. To remedy this problem, we propose new cost adjustment factors which can be incorporated into the standard and are important to enhance the estimation accuracy, based on the analysis of several well-known software estimation models. Furthermore, by applying the proposed model to real world software projects, we show that the proposed model can produce more accurate estimates than the current standard.

• 경영과학
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.75-91
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• 2006

The purpose of this paper is to propose a new software development cost estimation method using SVR(Support Vector Regression) SVR, one of machine learning techniques, has been attracting much attention for its theoretic clearness and food performance over other machine learning techniques. This paper may be the first study in which SVR is applied to the field of software cost estimation. To derive the new method, we analyze historical cost data including both well-known overseas and domestic software projects, and define cost drivers affecting software cost. Then, the SVR model is trained using the historical data and its estimation accuracy is compared with that of the linear regression model. Experimental results show that the SVR model produces more accurate prediction than the linear regression model.

• 품질경영학회지
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• 제17권2호
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• pp.17-26
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• 1989

This paper is concerned with forecasting the existing number of errors in the computer software and optimizing the stopping time of the software test based upon the forecasted number of errors. The most commonly used models have assessed software reliability under the assumption that the software failure late is proportional to the current fault content of the software but invariant to time since software faults are independents of others and equally likely to cause a failure during testing. In practice, it has been observed that in many situations, the failure rate decrease. Hence, this paper proposes a mathematical model to describe testing situations where the failure rate of software limearly decreases proportional to testing time. The least square method is used to estimate parameters of the mathematical model. A cost model to optimize the software testing time is also proposed. In this cost mode two cost factors are considered. The first cost is to test execution cost directly proportional to test time and the second cost is the failure cost incurred after delivery of the software to user. The failure cost is assumed to be proportional to the number of errors remained in the software at the test stopping time. The optimal stopping time is determined to minimize the total cost, which is the sum of test execution cast and the failure cost. A numerical example is solved to illustrate the proposed procedure.

• 한국정보전자통신기술학회논문지
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.460-466
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• 2018

정보기술의 발달로 컴퓨터 소프트웨어 시스템의 규모는 끊임없이 확장되고 있다. 소프트웨어 개발에 대한 신뢰성 및 비용은 소프트웨어 품질에 큰 영향을 미치고 있다. 본 연구에서는 소프트웨어 고장 간격시간 자료를 바탕으로 NHPP 모형에서 Type-2 Gumbel과 Erlang 분포의 형상모수를 따르는 수명분포에 근거한 소프트웨어 개발 비용모형에 관한 특성을 비교하고, 분석하였다. 그 결과, Go-Okumoto 모형 및 제시한 모형인 Erlang 모형과 Type-2 Gumble 모형에 대한 비용곡선의 추세는 모두 초기단계에서 감소하다가, 고장시간이 지나는 후반부에 가서는 점차 증가하는 결과를 보였다. 또한, Erlang 모형과 Type-2 Gumble 모형을 비교한 결과, Erlang 모형이 소프트웨어 출시시기가 빠르고, 출시시점의 비용도 경제적임을 알 수 있었다. 본 연구를 통하여, 소프트웨어 운용자들은 소프트웨어 출시시기 이후에 결함이 감소되도록 운영단계보다 테스팅 단계에서 결함들을 제거해야 하며, 소프트웨어 개발비용에 관한 특성을 파악하는데 필요한 사전정보을 연구할 수 있을 것으로 기대된다.