CS 594 Second Reading and Homework

 Required

Chapter of Pressman 5

http://sunset.usc.edu/COCOMOII/cocomo.html#conferences - "The COCOMO 2.0 Software Cost Estimation Model"

Optional Reading

C. E. Walston and C. P. Felix, "A Method of Programming Management and Estimation," IBM Systems Journal, Vol.16, No.1, 1977, pp. 54-73.

J. W. Bailey and V. R. Basili, "A Meta-Model for Software Development Resource Expenditures," Proceedings of the Fifth Internations Conference on Software Engineering, 1981, pp. 107-116.

B. A. Kitchenham, "Empirical Studies of Assumptions that Underlie Software Cost-estimation Models," Information and Software Technology, 34, No. 4, 211-218 (1992).

D. R. Jeffery and M. J. Lawrence, "Managing Programming Productivity," The Journal of Systems and Software, 5, 49-58 (1985).

M. J. Lawrence, "Programming Methodology, Organizational Environment, and Programming Productivity," Journal of Software and Systems, 2, 257-269 (1981).