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This fully updated and expanded volume provides costestimating methods for projects using modern technologies including java, objectoriented. In this practical guide, softwarequality guru capers jones reveals best practices for ensuring software development success by illustrating the. The final step of our requirements streamlining process is to compare requirement costs to the program budget, and on this basis determine the number of requirements to be cut. Capers and his colleagues from spr have collected historical data. Capers jones, the pioneer and leading authority in the field, this 724page book is the definitive encyclopedic reference and a mustread for every y2k and it project manager. The technical and social history of software engineering. Capers jones get a clear, complete understanding of how to estimate software costs, schedules, and quality using the real. Estimating software costs bringing realism to estimating. Jones, capers, programming productivity, new york mcgraw hill publishing company. Checklists for compliance to do178c and do278a standards. This company designs leadingedge risk, cost, and quality estimation and measurement tools. Estimating software costs, second edition mcgraw hill, 2007.

Software quality analysis and guidelines for success. Rather than provide simplistic manual formulas that lack the accuracy needed for contracts and serious business purposes, he explores in great detail the multifaceted variables that cause estimates to be higher or lower than average. To calculate the productivity level, average productivity ratios fpfte are applied to the maintenance tasks comprising the maintenance effort. Jones, capers applied software measurement global analysis of productivity and quality. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. Most methods of software sizing are based on software requirements and design documents, or on the source code itself. It contains software quality data that you can use to build a business case to improve the quality of your software, and decide upon processes and techniques that can help to implement the.

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