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COCOMO II parameters and IDPD: bilateral relevances

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ICSSP '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process

Pages 20 - 24

https://doi.org/10.1145/2600821.2600847

Published: 26 May 2014 Publication History

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The phenomenon called Incremental Development Productivity Decline (IDPD) is presumed to be present in all incremental soft-ware projects to some extent. COCOMO II is a popular parametric cost estimation model that has not yet been adapted to account for the challenges that IDPD poses to cost estimation. Instead, its cost driver and scale factors stay constant throughout the increments of a project. While a simple response could be to make these parameters variable per increment, questions are raised as to whether the existing parameters are enough to predict the behavior of an incrementally developed project even in that case. Individual COCOMO II parameters are evaluated with regard to their development over the course of increments and how they influence IDPD. The reverse is also done. In light of data collected in recent experimental projects, additional new variable parameters that either extend COCOMO II or could stand on their own are proposed.

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Chapetta WTravassos G(2020)Towards an evidence-based theoretical framework on factors influencing the software development productivityEmpirical Software Engineering10.1007/s10664-020-09844-525:5(3501-3543)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10664-020-09844-5

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COCOMO II parameters and IDPD: bilateral relevances
1. Social and professional topics
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    1. Management of computing and information systems
      1. Project and people management
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development process management
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Software configuration management and version control systems

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ICSSP '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Software and System Process

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DOI:10.1145/2600821

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ONO KTSUNODA MMONDEN AMATSUMOTO K(2021)Influence of Outliers on Estimation Accuracy of Software Development EffortIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems10.1587/transinf.2020MPP0005E104.D:1(91-105)Online publication date: 1-Jan-2021
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Chapetta WTravassos G(2020)Towards an evidence-based theoretical framework on factors influencing the software development productivityEmpirical Software Engineering10.1007/s10664-020-09844-525:5(3501-3543)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2020
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10664-020-09844-5

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