• DocumentCode
    1786182
  • Title

    Software Estimation: Transforming Dust into Pots of Gold?

  • Author

    Abran, A.

  • Author_Institution
    Ecole de Technol. Super., Montréal, QC, Canada
  • fYear
    2014
  • fDate
    6-8 Oct. 2014
  • Firstpage
    64
  • Lastpage
    65
  • Abstract
    In the Dark Ages the ´Lords of the country´ were expecting that their ´alchemists´ - the ´gurus´ of their era - would come up with mysterious formula that would transform ´dust´ into ´pots of gold! A lot of current software estimation models and practices, including in Agile and COCOMO-like models, share characteristics of craft practices observed in the Dark Ages, when compared to current professional practices from engineering and sciences.
  • Keywords
    software cost estimation; Agile models; COCOMO-like models; Dark Ages; craft practices; software estimation; Biological system modeling; Estimation; Gold; Organizations; Productivity; Software; Standards organizations; metrics; productivity models; software estimation;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Software Measurement and the International Conference on Software Process and Product Measurement (IWSM-MENSURA), 2014 Joint Conference of the International Workshop on
  • Conference_Location
    Rotterdam
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/IWSM.Mensura.2014.48
  • Filename
    7000077
    • Link To Document
    https://search.isc.ac/dl/search/defaultta.aspx?DTC=49&DC=1786182