Surveyor's Forum: The Real Costs of Software

Utilizing an integration of social learning and situated learning approaches, this study identifying 89 of 487 members as lurkers in an inquiry-based online learning community consisting of 81 groups is designed to explore the characteristics and ...

A discussion is presented of the two primary ways of understanding software costs. The black-box or influence-function approach provides useful experimental and observational insights on the relative software productivity and quality leverage of various ...