A Study on the Derivation and Sensitivity Analysis of the Adjustment Factor in the Software Cost Estimation Guidelines


The KIPS Transactions:PartD, Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 61-72, Feb. 2008
10.3745/KIPSTD.2008.15.1.61,   PDF Download:

Abstract

One of the most significant tasks of software development project is to know how much it will be the software development cost in the early stage of software development cycle. The software development environment and technology are changing very rapidly. For accuracy, we should apply those to the software cost estimation. And it is important that we select the suitable adjustment factor and the value of a suitable adjustment factor. For that, this paper have applied the method of AHP. And we have also analyzed the sensitivity of the adjustment factor which is influenced by decision metrics.In conclusion, the value of the application type adjustment factor is responded more sensitively to the data complexity and the control complexity than processing complexity. And the value of the language adjustment factor is responded more sensitively to the supplying manpower and the time of the coding than the time of the debugging.In the future, we will research the selection of an additional adjustment factor and a suitable value of the adjustment factor which are influenced by the environment and the technology of the domestic software development. And then, in the language adjustment factor, we will try to calculate the value about the individual programming language.


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[IEEE Style]
B. H. Byun and K. T. Kwon, "A Study on the Derivation and Sensitivity Analysis of the Adjustment Factor in the Software Cost Estimation Guidelines," The KIPS Transactions:PartD, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 61-72, 2008. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2008.15.1.61.

[ACM Style]
Boon Hee Byun and Ki Tae Kwon. 2008. A Study on the Derivation and Sensitivity Analysis of the Adjustment Factor in the Software Cost Estimation Guidelines. The KIPS Transactions:PartD, 15, 1, (2008), 61-72. DOI: 10.3745/KIPSTD.2008.15.1.61.