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Cost Estimation for Model-Driven Engineering

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Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2012)

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Abstract

Cost estimation studies in model-driven engineering (MDE) are scarce; first, due to difficulty in quantifying qualitative characteristics of MDE that supposedly influence software development effort and second, due to the complexity of measuring varied artifacts that are generated and used in an end-to-end MDE toolset. A cost estimation approach is therefore needed that can incorporate characteristics of MDE that affect economies of scale and effort in application development with the size computation of various artifacts in MDE. We plan to use the constructive cost model (COCOMO) II to obtain baseline cost estimation of MDE applications. Our main contributions are a method to capture the qualitative characteristics of MDE in terms of cost drivers in COCOMO II and a method for computation of various artifacts generated by an MDE toolset. Our initial exploration of these ideas suggests that it is possible to automate cost estimation for MDE.

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    Sagar Sunkle & Vinay Kulkarni

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, 80523, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Robert B. France

  2. Healthcare Services International, Managed Services, Siemens AG, Hartmannstr. 16, 91052, Erlangen, Germany

    Jürgen Kazmeier

  3. Institute of Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Technikerstr. 21a, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria

    Ruth Breu

  4. Software Engineering Group, A5, 6, University of Mannheim, 68131, Mannheim, Germany

    Colin Atkinson

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Sunkle, S., Kulkarni, V. (2012). Cost Estimation for Model-Driven Engineering. In: France, R.B., Kazmeier, J., Breu, R., Atkinson, C. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7590. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33666-9_42

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