Effort distribution by phase or activity is an important but often overlooked aspect compared to other steps in the cost estimation process. Poor effort allocation is among the ma...
Ye Yang, Mei He, Mingshu Li, Qing Wang, Barry W. B...
Software metrics should support managerial decision making in software projects. We explain how traditional metrics approaches, such as regression-based models for cost estimation...
Norman E. Fenton, William Marsh, Martin Neil, Patr...
Future space missions such as the Mars Science Laboratory demand the engineering of some of the most complex manrated autonomous software systems. According to some recent estimat...
Damian Dechev, Nicolas Rouquette, Peter Pirkelbaue...
Due to the high cost of modeling, model-based techniques are yet to make their impact in the embedded systems industry, which still persist on maintaining code-oriented legacy sys...
Joel Huselius, Johan Kraft, Hans Hansson, Sasikuma...
Large-scale commercial, industrial and financial operations are becoming ever more interdependent, and ever more dependent on IT. At the same time, the rapidly growing interconnec...